From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 18:54:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D1A37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:54:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao02.cox.net (fed1mtao02.cox.net [68.6.19.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC8643E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:54:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpmcgraw1@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([24.56.36.160]) by fed1mtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20021031025444.JIHG25985.fed1mtao02.cox.net@cox.net>; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:54:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC09A9E.589F8583@cox.net> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:51:10 -0700 From: Joel McGraw Organization: Digital Shamrock X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: knappster@knappster.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: static in X References: <3DC07FF7.F59B63B9@cox.net> <1036031692.29362.6.camel@antichrist.knappster.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the tip. That helped tremendously, but it still has the problem. I guess I'll be able to live with it until I can afford a new video card :) -Joel Andrew Knapp wrote: > I've had this problem a few times, and the solution for me was always to > not use such a high color depth level. I had been trying to use 24 bit, > but once I went down to 16 bit, it went away. I think this is depending > on the amount of RAM on your video card...give it a shot. > > HTH, > Andy Knapp > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 19:57, Joel McGraw wrote: > > Performed a fresh upgrade (actually, wipe and install) from 4.5 to 4.7 > > release. In X, any "event" (clicking, scrolling, etc.) causing static > > lines that are very disconcerting and at times make it downright > > unusable. I've read the documentation for my video card's driver and > > tried several options, all with no success. The video card is a Diamond > > Multimedia 3D 2000 which uses the S3 Virge chipset. I'm using the > > "s3virge" driver. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Joel > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message