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Re: Ghost windows on my graphic display



olivier henley wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I have a small problem with my display under Debian (woody).  My X
> server is 4.1, but as I installed from vanilla I am still running on a
> 2.2 kernel.  The computer is an old laptop with a trident 9385 chipset
> (2mb of ram).  Everything goes fine except when I open some
> applications such as oowriter, galeon or showimg.  When I do
> manipulation with one of these programs, some small ghost windows
> appears in the middle of the application.  Actually, 3 to 4 little
> screenshots of my desktop are displayed in blue, pink and green
> pixels.  Kind of "resonance" with distortion.  Someone knows what
> might be the problem.  Is it bad refresh rate, physical limitation
> from the card, need to upgrade kernel to 2.4 etc...
>
> I would really appreciate any guess. Thanks in advance. olivier henley
>
With a 2MB Trident, I'd suspect a limitation with the card. Try dropping
your color depth a notch or two, and see if the problem goes away.

-- 
Kent




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