[UFO Chicago] More fun XF4.0 stuff!

Nate Riffe inkblot@movealong.org
Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:11:29 -0600 (CST)


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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:

> Quoting Ian Bicking:
> > Okay, things are going okay, I reinstalled xfonts-base and it works
> > now.  Usually Debian doesn't do that sort of thing... but no harm
> > done.
>
> rockin'
>
> > Also, things get chopped off.  The spash screen on startup shows,
> > like, the top 1/2, and the rest is black.  Same with the XMMS
> > playlist, and the background of the Gnome panel.
> >
> > Anyway ideas what would be causing that?  It's very strange.  There's
> > weird flickering too.
>
> IME, when you start playing with DRI and GGI and XMC-wugga-FooGL,
> weird things start happening. It could be some parameters you need to
> send to the DRI drivers -- I would search google for your card type,
> DRI, and words like "flicker".
>
> But there you're getting into very card-specific voodoo and there's
> just NO TELLING what the problem could be. Unless it's that pudding
> that's leaking into the back of your monitor right now.

Given the topic at hand you might do well to s/voodoo/kung fu/ to avoid
confusion.

>
> pedro
>
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