could be but I am not booting a frame buffer kernel! (lilo has built in frame buffer which activeates something good on my card?)
- diego On 2001 December 22 &bet;,Saturday 03:42, Noam Meltzer wrote: > 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] -- You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact. ================================================================= 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]
