Video card recommendation?

Loïc Martin lomartin3 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 14:47:50 UTC 2006


Andy Grove wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> I just recently got xorg working properly by adding a Modeline to my
> xorg.conf and everything looks great until I start using the scroll bars on
> windows e.g. scrolling through Google results in Firefox. I get a strange
> effect which I believe is caused by double buffering not working properly
> and some pixels getting left behind. Resizing the window causes a repaint
> and everything looks fine again. The problem isn't limited to Firefox.
>
> I've posted a photo of the problem here:
>  
> http://configblog.blogspot.com/
>
> Scrolling down the page will take you to another post containing my xorg
> config (no idea if this is even related to xorg).
>
> It would be great to get this fixed without spending any money as the
> machine is working fine apart from this glitch. The machine is a Dell SC420
> and the specification can be found here:
>
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/sc420_specs.pdf
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy.
>   
One of my friends has the same pb with an old Matrox Mystique graphic 
card, so I'd also be interested in any possible solution :)

Cheers,
Loïc




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