On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:58:41PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:45:32PM -0800, Grant Miller wrote: > > X now starts up and displays nicely (had to up the color depth to 24) and > > it's *fast*. No more choppy dragging of xterms around. > > yeah it is nice isnt it :), probably the reason I only lasted about one day > on X Free 3.3.6 on my pismo bnefore upgrading to 4.0.* > > > One thing that is almost a show-stopper is the fact that the text in xterms > > and mozilla is distorted. I'll have to play around with xvidtune to see if > > that fixes things. > > I had this problem early on, I had seen similar sort of ditortion in the > past with X when the frequency I was running a monitor at was too hight, so > I set the frequency horizontal and vertical in the X config to some lower > range and now my X is fine with no distorition in all apps (well except some > weirdness in the scroll bar on the left in emacs where there is text, but it > is not a problem or anything as it is not stopping it from being readable > like it had been previously.) >
That did the trick. Thanks. I've updated my XF86Config on my website (see previous mail for link). --Grant Miller grant at unixguru dot org
