-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 April 2003 01:36 am, Atul Chitnis wrote: > I run RHL9 on an IBM Thinkpad T30 that uses the ATI Radeon Mobility > 7500. > > Under KDE (not sure whether under Gnome, since I don't use it), I often > have situations where an application (say pine) clears the screen of > the Konsole window, but leaves behind scattered characters across the > terminal window. It then paints the terminal window with new > information, with these characters intermingled. I've seen the same thing using KDE. For example, try "more /usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml" and scroll down several pages. 'q' to quit, and the screen is covered in artifacts. > If I now do something to cause the window to be redrawn (by dragging > the window offscreen, or changing virtual desktops back and forth), the > garbage disappears, leaving behind the legit data in the window. Same here. > This seems to be specific to the Radeon, since it doesn't happen on > other machines I use (with 845, Matrox G200, etc. displays). Oddly enough... $ /sbin/lspci | grep ATI 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 64 DDR] > Any clues on how to fix this? No idea on a real fix. I just use 'reset' to clear the terminal. ;) You might want to mention this on the XFree list. xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+pLItn/07WoAb/SsRAhNnAJ9Crm4XrDYQh+mtvvbEzwdNcre2SgCgk+5N T0R2X9LmU6jKWjB9+OpYDyw= =YtYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
