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Re: Flickering on flatscreen monitor, unable to use any opengl apps



Tim Connors wrote:
> What's the video card in a Mac G4?

It's in a PC, a VIA motherboard and an AMD Athlon 2000+ CPU.

> Because I found out yesterday that GL-heavy code flickers on that (at
> about half the refresh rate), but only on the second display - also,
> we draw 200,000 points using glCallList, and sometimes those
> completely dissapear.

It doesn't have to be GL, it can flicker in VGA/VESA-modes as well.

> It might well not be Linux at all - it could well be that your video
> card is just lacking (how much memory does your card have?)...

It has 128 MB memory I believe, although I'm not compeletely sure about that, it may also be 64 MB (I'm not sure how to check).

// Philip



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