Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:19:35 -0400 From: Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycorc@idt.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My monitor's got the Shakes... Message-ID: <3427EC17.3DAC5321@persprog.com> References: <19970922020524.01866@vinyl.quickweb.com> <2148.874908597@time.cdrom.com> <19970922022041.09429@vinyl.quickweb.com> <342627F7.8F2B13D@idt.net> <19970922191032.39700@lemis.com> <342750F1.6B99A272@idt.net> <199709231457.IAA07172@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > Mess with the background to see if you can minimize it. If I use a > grey > background, it makes it much worse than if I use a 'darker' background > (I use a wall-paper like pattern which tends to minimize the effects.) (Ding Ding DING!) On Sqwindows '95, some colors are created by using a pixel-by-pixel stipple pattern of different "solid" colors. Sometimes this is done even if the video depth is set to 16 (a non-pallette mode). Could this be happening in X? Maybe there is an xbm or xpm -based grey involved. -- "Going down to South Park - going to leave my woes behind..." David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com
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