From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 5: 0:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay3.adelphia.net (smtprelay3.adelphia.net [64.8.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A7037B401 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from twin.scraemondaemon.org ([24.49.117.213]) by smtprelay3.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GHP5D100.QOU for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:00:37 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by twin.scraemondaemon.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f77Bveu01763; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 07:57:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 07:57:00 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 wierdness Message-ID: <20010807075700.A1724@localhost> References: <20010806181635.A3544@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010806181635.A3544@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:16:36PM -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by twin.scraemondaemon.org id f77Bveu01763 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 As it was put forth by Louis LeBlanc on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:16:36PM -= 0400... > Hey all. I am seeing strange behavior with XFree86 on 4.3 release. > My xterms often throw up part of a line at the top of the screen or to > the side, shifted left over the scrollbar or window border. >=20 > I am using Fvwm2-devel from the ports, and running on a system with an > ATI Rage 128, 16M video ram, and have tried resolutions of > 1024x768/16bpp, and 1152x870/16bpp. Still get the same. I think the > XFree86 version is 3.3.3 (the current version, built and installed the > world on 7/19. >=20 > Any ideas how to fix this? >=20 > TIA > Lou > --=20 > Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net =D4=BF=D4=AC >=20 > philosophy: > The ability to bear with calmness the misfortunes of our friends. >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I used to use almost the same card. Mine was an ATI Rage 32MB AGP. Whenever I tried to use XFree 3.3.6, which is what you have if you didn't install X from the ports, I would get extraneous garbage on the screen. = X 4, every point version above it, fixed the problem. I run a Matrox G400 now. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message