can someone give me more specific help in something...

[Guest_imported]

i always see (in both KDE and GNOME) those (kinda hard to explain) "spots" or something.its like a big line (usually or black or white). when i move a window it "erases" my screen more and more. i tried all i can in "Xconfigurator" but it aint works. what works in win dont work in linux. All i can do is to make things worse.
someone told me to do "SuperProbe" and then "XFree86 Setup" but i dont know what to do on there. after i do superprobe its written" chipset: cirrus cl-gd5446; memory-2048;RAMDAC-cirrus logic built in 8-bit preudo color-DAC."
can someone tell me exactly what i should now do i n XFree86 Setup?
thanks.

p.s i use mandrake 8

 

[WheelDweller]

I think this is what's called "Magic Cookies" in the old days, or "artifacts". It's got nothing to do with the window manager or anything, it's a driver issue. It's *possible* that your video card's driver has been obsoleted, ill-chosen or similar.

I can't tell which it is, without knowing the card type...

If you decide to get another card, the Nvidia GeForce2 (not three) is excellent; and since the 3's have come out, they'll be nice and cheap. The 3's might be great...and probably are...but you can wait until the price drops below $300.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You don't say what flavor of linux you have - most have similar tools to Xconfigurator (which is for redhat).

All distros should have the native XFree86 tools :

xf86cfg (graphical - run from a console window under X)

xf86config (console - fairly basic !)

The man page for xf86cfg is here -->

http://www.xfree.org/4.2.0/xf86cfg.1.html

. Basically, you get a small graphical represention of your X hardware - don't add anything just click on the existing 'icons' and change appropriately. (You need the XFree86-xf86cfg rpm installed to use this tool). For portugese speakers (!) , theres a picture of it at Conectiva's site (they develop it). Its two-thirds down the page here -->

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/projetos/22

Hope this helps

 

[devinci]

also what you can try is edit the x server file that Xconfigure created to make sure that "accel" is not in the display settings or you can add the lie

option noaccel

in your display section


what this does is that it uses accelerated 2D or not depending on your choice