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Hello friends, I set my *shared memory size* to just 4 MB and the "shadows" is gone. THE PROBLEM: I have *just 4 MB* (from 256 available) for my video card (onboard — I´m using a pcchis m598lmr). My BIOS can't reserve more than 8MB. Although, 8 MB left "shadows over my desktop" (artifacts according Silviu, see: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Jul/1658.html and to see how it was with 8MB: http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Adagilson/shadowsOfAppsOverMydesktop.png ...How could I solve this question? thanks for any help a. PS--BTW (I'm missing with the truth) install suse 8.0! it's very good :) As I can't free more Adagilson B B da Silva wrote:
Hello Silviu, good-morning You're right: i meant it is leaving "puzzled" shadows over my desktop. sorry, for my portuguenglish :) I have an onboard mobo (m598lmr pcchips) with SIS530. It works fine for win98, winme, winxp, etc.
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. -- Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961
Hello friends, I set my *shared memory size* to just 4 MB and the "shadows" is gone. THE PROBLEM: I have *just 4 MB* (from 256 available) for my video card (onboard — I´m using a pcchis m598lmr). There's your problem. That's one buggy little board - sorry to have to say
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 13:58, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote: this. I'm surprised you got SuSE installed at all - mine kept haning when laoding the braille stuff. Allright, the problem with you display relates to the crappy onboard SiS graphics. From my days trying to get XFree86 version 3 going on a SiS card, here's what you should do. Edit your XF86Config file. Look for the section that defines your graphics card - it will contain references to SiS somewhere. In that section, just above "endsection," add the following lines: Option "noaccel" Option "nolinear" I'm not entirely sure what this does, but that solved it for me on a variety of different linux distro's on a wide range of SiS cards over the last couple of years. Good luck, let us know what happens Hans
Thanks for replying! Merry Christmas for you too ;) Of course, I'll try what you suggested. But I wonder if I can start sax again to restore to my previous refresh rate; it was working fine (8 MB shared memory size, reserved in BIOs was+800x600@60hz+refresh rates specified by manufacturer). As I said I have no visibility to open any app: the screen is blicking and screaming. a. Hans du Plooy escreveu:
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 13:58, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
Hello friends, I set my *shared memory size* to just 4 MB and the "shadows" is gone. THE PROBLEM: I have *just 4 MB* (from 256 available) for my video card (onboard — I´m using a pcchis m598lmr).
There's your problem. That's one buggy little board - sorry to have to say this. I'm surprised you got SuSE installed at all - mine kept haning when laoding the braille stuff.
Allright, the problem with you display relates to the crappy onboard SiS graphics. From my days trying to get XFree86 version 3 going on a SiS card, here's what you should do.
Edit your XF86Config file. Look for the section that defines your graphics card - it will contain references to SiS somewhere.
In that section, just above "endsection," add the following lines:
Option "noaccel" Option "nolinear"
I'm not entirely sure what this does, but that solved it for me on a variety of different linux distro's on a wide range of SiS cards over the last couple of years.
Good luck, let us know what happens Hans
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Because my graphical user interface is not displayed properly (screen gets blicking when X server starts) by now (it looks as the refresh rates were modified and were wrong). I just want to open sax again to inform the correct values. That's what I'm doing: ALT+F2 (because I can't login or at least I can't see the login manager: screen gets blicking) login: adagilson/password:**** $sax2 (from now on everything gets blicking again) I wonder if I can start sax again to restore to my previous refresh rate; it was working fine (8 MB shared memory size in BIOS+800x600@60hz+vertical and horizontal refresh rates specified by manufacturer). As I said I have no visibility to open any app: the screen is blicking and screaming. a.
The Wednesday 2003-12-24 at 10:00 -0200, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
That's what I'm doing: ALT+F2 (because I can't login or at least I can't see the login manager: screen gets blicking) login: adagilson/password:**** $sax2 (from now on everything gets blicking again)
No. First, do a "init 3" to kill the graphical server. Then, you can try "sax2 --rebuild" to force it to start afresh. If the option is wrong, do a "sax2 --help" to find out. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I just edited the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. I know that there's a message warning not to do so, but it's working today. Some alterations were done for refresh rates and ...voilá! Also I turned my shared video memory (BIOS) to 4MB again (instead 8MB) as described in another thread: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Jul/1658.html thanks everybody! a. Carlos E. R. escreveu:
The Wednesday 2003-12-24 at 10:00 -0200, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
That's what I'm doing: ALT+F2 (because I can't login or at least I can't see the login manager: screen gets blicking) login: adagilson/password:**** $sax2 (from now on everything gets blicking again)
No. First, do a "init 3" to kill the graphical server. Then, you can try "sax2 --rebuild" to force it to start afresh. If the option is wrong, do a "sax2 --help" to find out.
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