Display Corrpution/SaX2 configuration

From: Ruari Callow (e8n4-aenq_at_ruari.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:20:57 -0500

Hi all,

I have never posted to these two groups before but I'm hoping one of you
would be kind enough to help me. I would greatly appreciate any advice any
of you can offer.

I recently upgraded from SUSE Pro 8.2 to SUSE Pro 9. One major issue I had
with SUSE 8.2 was that when installed on my Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDS I
get serious display corruption when running X. I suspected (hoped) this
might be an issue which was fixed in version 9. Unfortunately the issue
remains. I therefore now suspect this may be an X issue with my particular
graphics card (the display is fine in Windows 98 SE but who wants to use
that!). However, I have subsequently come to wonder if it might be a issue
that I can resove by changing the graphics settings in SaX2 (or even
manually). Perhaps if I give you details of my setup you could provide
help with changes I could make in order to get the display to work
correctly.

Here are the details of my system setup in case they are of use to any of
you:

Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDS (notebook)
400 Mhz AMD K6-2 (3D NOW)
192MB RAM
21.1 DTSN screen configured by SUSE YaST2/SaX2 as:

Card: S3 ViRGE/MX ( s3virge )
 Monitor: --> VESA 800X600@60HZ [ 31-38 kHZ / 50-60 Hz ]
 Resolutions: 800x600
 Color depth: 16 bit

3D Acceleration:
 Unavailable

(If you want to know anything else about the setup just ask.)

Here is a link to an example of the type of corruption I am getting:

http://www.panix.com/~ruari/screen_corruption_SUSE9.png

The corruption appears as bands of interference accross the display. They
often appear across the program I am working in and are a nusience as it
prevents me being able to see what I am doing. If I move around the window
of the application I am working in it will sometimes clear up or scrolling
up and down in a browser window may also temporarily fix things. However,
the issue will alays come back and makes it very difficult to work.
Similarly, I often get reminants of screen changes staying on screen after
they should have disapepared. For example in the Opera browser if i hover
my mouse over an image with a title in the img tag it displays but does
not go away (scrolling up and down may clear it). This is not an Opera
issue as a test install on a second machine I had access to does not
result in this problem.

So my question is. Are there any changes I could make or some update I
could download that would fix this issue or is it simply a case of my
hardware not being supported by SUSE (or Linux more generally)? I have not
had a chance to test other versions of Linux on this machine yet, though
if I do get a chance and have some success I will report back.

Any help or advice in resolving this setup issue would be greatly
appreciated.

Kindest regards,
Ruari 

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