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Re: a obscure bug in X



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
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> 
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