Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:51:25 +0100 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: <stable@freebsd.org>, "Pete French" <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Subject: Re: Its really not my lucky day with XFRee86-4 is it! Message-ID: <00b701c1f697$71be3530$6d6020c2@pc598cam> References: <E175RkC-0003d4-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete French" <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: <dmlb@dmlb.org>; <stable@freebsd.org> 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
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