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Re: getting external monitors to work with 15" powerbook



Hello again Michel,

One more bit of information for you.  When in the dual monitor mode with
the crazy messed up colours, I've observed that uninterrupted blocks of
solid colour are drawn correctly.

For example, I use the Gnome desktop background (Nautilus in my case). 
If I set the solid background colour to be what should be blue (but is
displayed black in the colour selector as I've previously stated), it is
drawn correctly as blue on the background.  If I click and drag an icon
around, it leaves a black trail.  (An image background is rendered
incorrectly as everything else).

Could this be related to the difference in hardware and software
rendering?  I'm assuming the solid colour is hardware filled, but as I
drag icons it's done in software.  The hardware rendered fill is drawn
correctly but the software is wrong as described.

Unfortunately I can't run Quake2 to see an entirely hardware drawn
screen as direct rendering is disabled in dual monitor mode, but I'd
expect it was drawn with the correct colour palette.  Any other
suggestions?

I hope I'm not way off the tracks here and the information is useful to
you (or somebody).

John.

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:51, John Leach wrote:
> Hi Michel,
> 
> sorry for the delay, but this has taken me quite a while to put
> together.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 23:48, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Sure, NoAccel is never a solution but merely a means to help find out
> > what's going on.
> 
> Ok, my testing shows no change toggling the NoAccel option (for both
> displays at the same time) other than a performance hit.....
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