Re: [TCLUG:6739] Video card problem-need feedback!!!!!

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Mark wrote:
> 
> Problem:  More and more frequently text in all open application windows
> and on panel at bottom of screen is granulating (or pixalating?) to the
> point where it is not legible.
> 
> If I sweep an active window over another window, the text on the window
> that was passed over is clear again but only temporarily.
>
> If I exit from Xwindows and restart Xwindows, all the text is normal
> again but this may stay okay for awhile or go bad again quickly.
> 
> This whole problem is occurring on average every other day I use the PC.
> 
> Hardware:  AMD K6 300 hz, 64 megs of ram, Video card - standard S3 Virge
> with 4 mgs of ram, Sony Multiscan 400 PS 19" monitor.

Whenever I hear about problems with a Virge card, I always recommend trying out
the vanilla XF86_SVGA X server (I know that some people can't get their Virge
cards to work with that at all, though..)  The XF86_S3V X server has some pretty
nasty problems.  If you can get the SVGA server to work at all, it will usually
work better than the S3V server.

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