From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 6:51:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate2.Cadence.COM (mailgate2.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B773A37B408 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exmbx01camb.global.cadence.com (exmbx01camb.Cadence.COM [194.32.100.67]) by mailgate2.Cadence.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA26708; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc598cam ([194.32.96.109]) by exmbx01camb.global.cadence.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Wed, 8 May 2002 14:52:05 +0100 Message-ID: <00b701c1f697$71be3530$6d6020c2@pc598cam> From: "Duncan Barclay" To: , "Pete French" References: Subject: Re: Its really not my lucky day with XFRee86-4 is it! Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:51:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 May 2002 13:52:05.0487 (UTC) FILETIME=[89C37FF0:01C1F697] X-Received: By mailgate2.Cadence.COM as GAA26708 at Wed May 8 06:51:13 2002 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete French" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:44 PM Subject: Re: Its really not my lucky day with XFRee86-4 is it! > > Is this not horizontal video timings being out a little? Try and use > > xvidtune and shift the screen right a > > little. I can get tearing of windows even if the left hand side of the > > screen looks okay, > > Interesting Idea. I did run xvidtune, but cant make the effect go away. > I set all the parameters back to precisely what they were on the previous > configuration of XFree86 and its still there. I think you are right about > it being a video artefact though, as it is dependent on the contents of > the screen line; you can change the effect by placing windows with differenmt > content to the right of it. Are all the dot clocks and timing pulses exactly the same? Is it a monitor or LCD? If a monitor, have you moved it (magnetic dip)? If an LCD press the case around the screen to see if it is the contacts to the LCD itself - I have a laptop that goes cranky like this with bad contacts. > I also notice that xvidtune does not alter my XFree86Config file, and that > the settings I have applied do not appear to persist the next time I run up > X11. Which is kind of incidental as it doesnt fix the bug anyway, but does > concern me a bit. Where should these parameters be stored in the new > version of X4 There is a button on xvidtune to write a modeline to stdout. You can then add this into XF86Config. > > s/pcf/bat/g ;-) > > Indeed, Raggy, indeed... :-) > > -pcf. > > ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message