Re: [MLUG] X4 - fixed it.

[Gerald Pickens <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

To whom it may concern, I would like to be release from this club or whatever is
I cannot store all the messages I have been receiving, if this was my home
account I would love to be apart of this club, because I have a lot of questions
to ask. I will get back in when I get my system setup at home.

Mark Rages wrote:

> OK, for the benefit of those googling our archive:
>
> I made my Trident TGUI9680 stop flickering with XFree86 4.1.0 by using
> the following XF86Config "Device" section:
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier "Trident TGUI9660"
>     Driver "trident"
>     Option "NoPciBurst" "on"
>     Option "ShadowFB" "on"
> EndSection
>
> This still gives nice accelerated performance, compared to 3.3.6. Window
> dragging not as smooth as with those options turned off, but at least
> there's not snow on the screen while they're dragged.
>
> I learned something else, too: If I used two Xservers, the one on :0 for
> editing my config files and the one on :1 for testing the changes,
> nothing at all will stop the flickering/snow. I had to kill ALL the
> servers before the changes would show... Don't know why that's not
> intuitive to me, but so much for THAT 1.5 hrs of my life.
>
> Mark
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