It's been my experience that those kind of problems are due to anI checked, and you were right: I had used the refresh rates from a technical booklet pertaining to my son's monitor. So I changed the values, relaunched X, but the problem remained.
incorrect vert and/or horz frequency choice when setting up the
xserver. Does the documentation for your *monitor* give those
values? If so, use them when setting up the xserver. What sax2
detects may work somewhat, as yours does, but not be correct.
JLK
I switched back to the Xfree 4 version supplied by SuSE, and the problem was still the same. It then dawned on me that I had changed my motherboard over the week-end, and had reinstalled windows. The Xfree truetype server pointed to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype that contained symlinks to all my Windows/fonts directory. But since I had only reinstalled windows, and no applications, most of the symlinks were dead. I just removed all links, made new ones, uses ttmkfdir and mkfontdir, installed a new fonts.alias file, relaunched X, and the problem was gone.
It is deceptively easy to overlook the obvious.
Anyway, thanks for your help, and a very happy new year to you!
Fx
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