Re: XFree86 and Mack64 - Screen Flashes!

[Paul Braman <braman tsc-corp com>]

On 29 Apr 1998, Jake Colman wrote:

> I installed XFree86 (off of RH 5.0) and it successfully probed my machine to
> determine that I had an (on-board) ATI MACH64. Was also lucky enough to have
> monitor (NEC) that was on the list of known monitors.  I accepted the defaults
> for all prompts (e.g., default resolution) and Everthing should be perfect,
> right?  Instead, whenever I drag a window, and cause text to scroll within a
> window, I get stray flashes all over the screen.  Quite annoying!  Any ideas?
> Is MetroX a better server?

This happens on MetroX as well.  I have an ATI 3D Pro Turbo 8M card set 
to 65K colors.  The problem is the refresh rate.  For whatever reason, 
when I set the refresh rate at 85Hz I get the problem, but when I set it 
down to 75Hz the problem goes away.

Paul Braman
braman tsc-corp com