Re: Ugly web pages on satellite 2060cds
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:06:32 -0500
Matej Cepl <matej@ceplovi.cz> wrote:
> Hugo S. Carrer wrote:
> > I'm running woody (custom 2.4.18) on a Toshiba 2060cds.
> > It has a S3 Virge/MX Graphics card Some times when I
> > load a webpage on opera or galeon (XFree 4.1.0-16),
> > parts of the page are just noise (random color dots
> > following no pattern at all). When I scroll the page up
> > un down the noise usually disappears only to appear at
> > a diferent place. I'm guessing a misconfigured video
> > board but don't know what to do. Any ideas? CU
>
> I have to second with the exactly same problem on Compaq
> Presario 1200 with Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i7d
> (rev 5c) and konqueror (and many other KDE/X applications,
> but konqueror and mozilla are by far the worst). Of
> course, I have trident driver in /etc/X11/XFConfig-4:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Trident Cyberblade (configured)"
> Driver "trident"
> Option "SWCursor" "on"
> BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
> EndSection
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Matej
>
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I've been reading the s3virge man page and some combinations
of options fix the problem but these options ussually mean
slower graphics preformance. It would be great if someone
gives me the magic combination.
Something you could try on your presario is
Option "ShadowFB"
(from trident man page)
Good luck
--
Ing. Hugo S. Carrer
Laboratorio de Comunicaciones Digitales
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
http://lcd.efn.uncor.edu
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