Just keep in mind that if you use the Xv video acceleration enabled
drivers in XFreee86 that Xv only works in 16 Bit mode in Neomagic cards.
Oh well, Xv will probably not work in 24 bit 1024x768 anyways due to
framebuffer memory concerns.
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Victor wrote:
> Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> <snip>
> > Here are the relevant sections of the XF86Config-4 on my Debian Sid and
> > Sarge systems.
> <snip>
> > One line to pay attention to in the video card definition is that
> > UseFBDev is set to true. According to the setup routine in Debian,
> > on some systems it works better to use it, on others not to. So
> > if yours is set to false and you have a frame-buffer kernel (most
> > distros ship kernels with frame buffer enabled, I believe; maybe they
> > all do these days), try setting that to true. Converely, if it's
> > already true, set it to false and see if it helps, although the fact
> > that it's worked for me set to true on two different 600X machines=20
> > tends to indicate true is the way to go if your kernel supports it.
> > If it doesn't, compile one that does :-)
> >
> > HTH,
> > Jonathan
>
> Thanks for responding, yeah, I think UseFBDev did help. Will test some
> more and see if abnormalities persist. What I saw was (I was running
> IceWM) is that if you move windows really quickly (used external mouse),
> the windows leave vertical lines on the canvas.
>
> Thanks for the note
> Victor
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