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Re: Grainy X?



on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:29:57AM -0400, Ken Mead (cmead@sympatico.ca) wrote:

Please set your mailer to send text rather than HTML, particularly to
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Thank you.

> I'm on a a20m IBM laptop, with a ATI rage mobilty vid card. Since I
> upgraded X this morning when I run my window manager in this case
> wmaker, the pixels seem huge and the screen is very 'grainy' looking.
> I have entered the exact sync and refresh rates for both my monitor
> and vid card.

You're probably at colordepth of 4 or 8.  This looks particularly bad
under WindowMaker.

Re-run xf86cfg (IIRC) or manually modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Peace.

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