it's not the lilo. it's the kernel... it's the framebuffer driver you use to get graphics mode. it is well known to improve performance.
Noam On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:44, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote: > Hi all > > I started playing with my system (now I have ext3, which means i can just press the >power button > like I do on windows..) and decided to change lilo from a graphic boot into a menu. >Which looks cool > either way. > When I boot from a text menu in lilo, in X I see a ugly "noise" or distorcion in the >screen. I tried changing > resolutions, card drivers, bpp and etc. Nothing helps. I want to say that I have >that problem in x 4.03 > and I solved it by reducing the refresh rate of the screen. I thought that it was >due a kernel bug. Which > I found not true when I rebooted into an old kernel. Now nothing helped. > > Until I restore lilo boot menu into graphics, run lilo and rebooted. now everything >is OK. 85hz. > Which is the most I can get from this driver anyway (on windows I can do 100hz). > > If this bug is not reported whom should I contact: > mandrake? XFree86? Lilo? > > The system is mandrake 8.1, X 4.1 > monitor Samsong SyncMaster 750s (supported by X4.1) > video card: ATI Rage II, mach64. > kernel 2.4.16. > I use 1024x768x 16 bit display. > - diego > -- > My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet, > And a wild young wood-thing bore him! > The ways are fair to his roaming feet, > And the skies are sunlit for him. > As sharply sweet to my heart he seems > As the fragrance of acacia. > My own dear love, he is all my dreams -- > And I wish he were in Asia. > -- Dorothy Parker, part 2 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4853872 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
