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From: chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS)
Subject: where the black spots on my X windows come from?
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 14:58:32 GMT
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Does anyone has the problem with X ?
There are black spots on my twm pop-up menu and on some of applications
such as gs (ghostscript) and xfig ( it is worst in xfig, it also has
lines too.) It is regardless the background / foreground color
of windows, they are always black. It is also regardless which video
mode is on "640x480" or "1024x768". When the pop-up window is gone,
the stain will be left on the other windows underneath it, but not the
portion was on the root window (namely the root window background is
always clean). I can clean the stain left on the
other window by refreshing windows. But I cannot clean the stains on
gs or xfig.
When X is gone (by press <crtl><alt><backspace>, the console screen
has some stain (spots, short lines and funny characters) left, even
I went to vi screen they are still there.
Is it come from the video card? No, I don't think so. Because
MS windows is o.k. and also xterm and other games windows are o.k.
>From Xserver?
Any glue? any way of fix?
My 486 configuration is :
NICE-EISA 486DX2-66MHZ with 256 cache, AMI BIOS
16MB RAM
Adatec 1542B SCSI Host Adapter
Teac 1.2 MB 5.25" Floppy, Teac 1.4 MB 3.5" Diskette
Toshiba 1.2 GB SCSI Hard disk
Wangtek 5150ES 250 Mag Tape drive
Diamond Stealth VRAM 1MB on board
Viewsonic 7 17" FS Multi-Freq Color Monitor
It is running SLS Linux version 0.99.p14-62 and X386.S3-0.3.1 xserver.
I use "s3 5 9 " to set the third dot clock. Then I just use "startx" to
bring X up. And part of my Xconfig is as follow:
vga256
Virtual 1024 768
Clocks 25 28 75
ViewPort 0 0
Modes "640x480" "1024x768"
ModeDB
# name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
"640x480" 25 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525
"1024x768" 75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806
Any help will be appreciated.
---Susie Chu
net address: chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
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