Message-ID: <3A4F2294.28CF2317@skynet.be> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:12:04 +0100 From: fx Fraipont <fxf@skynet.be> Subject: ATI Expert@play 98 problem in Xfree 4.02 I have recently replaced an Ati Rage pro 8mb with an ATI expert@play 8mb only because the new card has TV out, which I need for my DVD. I think the two cards use the same processor. But when I configured the new card with sax2 (I use SuSE 7), I started having problems with screen redraws: some text becomes illegible when you use sliding bars quickly. I have read all I could find on the SuSe website and in newsgroups, I have downloaded the new 4.02 version, but I still have the same problem. Has anyone experienced the same problem, and can anyone offer a solution? Thanks Fx -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux Kernel 2.2.17 (who Kares?)
From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@jlkreps.net> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 07:41:51 -0600 Message-Id: <00123107415102.03905@JLKreps> Subject: Re: [SLE] ATI Expert@play 98 problem in Xfree 4.02 On Sunday 31 December 2000 06:12, fx Fraipont wrote:
I have recently replaced an Ati Rage pro 8mb with an ATI expert@play 8mb only because the new card has TV out, which I need for my DVD.
I think the two cards use the same processor.
But when I configured the new card with sax2 (I use SuSE 7), I started having problems with screen redraws: some text becomes illegible when you use sliding bars quickly.
I have read all I could find on the SuSe website and in newsgroups, I have downloaded the new 4.02 version, but I still have the same problem.
Has anyone experienced the same problem, and can anyone offer a solution?
Thanks
It's been my experience that those kind of problems are due to an 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 <p> -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
It's been my experience that those kind of problems are due to an 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 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. 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 -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux Kernel 2.2.17 (who Kares?)
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