OK, now i've just 4MB ram for my video chip (it was 8 MB ram) and my Desktop is running fine. Why couldn't I reserv more memory for my video card through BIOS if I have plenty of memory? Just 4MB ram should decrease my video perfomance, Shouldn´'t it? a.

Take a look at this snapshot and see how my desktop stay dirty just opening the simplest application:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Adagilson/shadowsOfAppsOverMydesktop.png I just want to remove (avoid them) these "shadows" (artifacts according Silviu) over my screen. As I said I have SuSE 8.0, k6-II 500mhz, 250MB ram, KDE 3.0, Gnome 1.4 Thanks for any help a. ps--by embarassed desktop i was going to say "puzzled", dirty desktop

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On Wednesday 06 November 2002 6:44 am, Adagilson B B da Silva wrote:

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it has more than 250MB ram (just 8 for video, my friend)

Silviu Marin-Caea escreveu:

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Hmm, it doesn't have any reason not to work with XFree too... Perform that upgrade, and if that doesn't solve it, try with another vertical refresh. Or try relaxing the memory parameters in BIOS, considering your video chip uses a part of the main system memory, maybe it's not fast enough.

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