On 6, sep, 2000 at 02:13:18 +0400, Rino Mardo wrote:
> I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome
> (using
> Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I
> booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome
> is really supposed to look and I like what I saw. So my question is:
>
> How can I remove the grainyness out of my X install?
>
> I have 2.2 and installed helix-gnome from spidermonkey .deb files and I have a
> 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X vidcard with 8MB ram and using 1024x768 res and 32 bpp.
>
> My resolution is no problem it's only this grainy texture that bothers me.
Long shot: are you _absolutely_ sure you use 32bpp?
I've had the ``grainy experience'' too, and all was well when I set:
DefaultColorDepth 32
in my /etc/X11/XF86Config. It turned out I had used 8bpp before.
If this doesn't help I don't know, sorry. it works very well here.
Regards
Morten
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