I just installed Shrike on a portable computer(acer aspire 1310) and have this strange problem:
When KDE(or whatever) loads in 1024x768(which is the resolution my portable supports), regions in the screen with specific colors flicker.
What depth is the screen? If it's only 8 bits per pixel then you're probably running into colormap problems. If possible, configure the depth to 16bpp or 24bpp to get true-colour.
You can find out what's configured by looking at the output of xdpyinfo. For instance, on my machine it says (on the second or third screenful):
screen #0: dimensions: 1920x1200 pixels (650x406 millimeters) resolution: 75x75 dots per inch depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id: 0xaf depth of root window: 24 planes
It's that "depth of root window" that's important -- if you go on further you should see lots of different "visuals" -- with the depth of the root window set to 8 you'll see visuals with classes like "PseudoColor" and "GrayScale" as well as a "TrueColor" visual. With 16bpp or 24bpp you'll see TrueColor and DirectColor (it's never been clear to me what the difference between those is).
I wish my screen was 650mm wide :-) It's actually only about half that, but then it is a laptop.
jch
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