> I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to > my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty > standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has > a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies > both ok. I used xf86config to set up the configuration file > and can't see anything wrong there (as suggested I've set > no clock settings). > I'm using fvwm2. When I start up X I get small dots appearing > round anything that moves (a window if I drag it, fish if > I start xfishtank, etc). Some of the dots stay visible (this > effect does occasionally appear under Win95, but only within > scrollbars around windows. Otherwise there are no graphics problems > at all under Win95). I're tried turning off both acceleration > and bitblt, but that makes things worse: in particular, if I > generate text wider than a window (eg by ls -al) the window is > redrawn with multiple overlapping copies of itself. > If I force a redraw most times the dots go away. > > Any suggestions?
A bit of a long shot here.. The word 'sparklies' made me think that it might be a dot/pixel clock rate too high, but if the noise only changes or appears when something is drawn or moved on the screen then it's probably not that. About a year ago I built a system with a Supermicro Pentium Pro motherboard and an S3-based card. Under MS Windows every time a window closed or was moved the stuff revealed would be covered in noise. After doing that half a dozen times the system would hang. Linux coped better: I got the noise but not the hang. To cut a long story short I came to the conclusion that the motherboard didn't like S3s. I switched to a Matrox Millenium and haven't had any trouble since. In summary, I'd try a different graphics card in your machine (or your card in another machine). -- Monstrous tripods, higher than the tallest steeple, striding over the pine trees and smashing them. Walking engines of glittering metal. I realized with horror that my robotics experiment had got out of hand. (With apologies to HG Wells.) http://www.algol.demon.co.uk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
