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Streaks appearing in Xwindows ...

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chrono111

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Mar 20, 2002
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I'm running Red Hat 6.2, I've had no problems for over a year and all of a sudden my screen flickers and now I have streaks all over xwindows. I'm not sure how to fix this. I tried Xconfigurator and changed resolutions but that didn't work. I'm wondering if it's my video card. Not sure. Any suggestions?
 
what is the load? I had similiar probelm, on some old machine with old gfx card and when there was a high load, I noticed the same effect as you.
bubak
 
No the load's really low on my local machine. I was running some scripts on our developement server that created large files but I don't think that was the problem. I thought it was because I didn't clear my cache on netscape. I cleared that and nothing. Well I'm still surfing the net and programming but the streaks are annonying.
 
Items to check...

- Physical connection between the computer and the monitor
- Swap monitors
- Reinstall the video adapter driver

That should help you nail the problem.

Gary
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