At 01:15 AM 98/06/14 -0500, you wrote:

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As long as we're on the subject, anything over 800x600 and I get a horrid refresh rate. Both my card (s3) and my monitor (ADI 5AP 17") are capable of doing better at up to 1280x1024. I dual boot, and this is this case in both os'es, so it isn't an x issue. I'm just curious, is my graphics card or my monitor more likely to be the culprit? I get outstanding image quality at 800x600, but at 1024x768 I get the wavy effect from too low a refresh rate. I would hate to buy one of the new matrox g200 cards about to be released if it turns out my monitor is the problem. Thanks in advance.

Mike,

Low refresh rate will manifest in flicker. The wavy effect is called moire and unless your monitor has adjustments for it, you are out of luck.

I too, have dual boot machine with a STB Velocity 128 AGP card and Viewsonice P810 monitor. Under Win95 the display is fine right upto 1600x1200 @76Hz. Unfortunately, under X windows I have not had much luck. There is visible moire and the moire control is only effective for minor adjustments (too much correction results in out of focus text). The display is jerky (sideways) in all the popular modes 800x600 -> 1280x1204. I am using the latest XF86_SVGA server and have configured it using SuSE's xf86config. Yes, I have read the README.RIVA128 and made all the adjustments it mentions and verified no IRQ conflict.

Let us know if you make any progress.

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What about using xvidtune to fine tune your XF86Config stuff. I used it on my laptop it helps a little. Drew -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e