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Video corruption, intermittant, with 3dfx Voodoo3 3000D
Linux 7.1 Kernel 2.4.2-2 XFree86 4.0.3 Dell FP1500 flat panel LCD monitor Pentium III, 256 k mem Voodoo3 3000D, 16 mb mem Logitech wheel mouse, installed as 'generic 3-button'.
After about 20 minutes, video shifts slightly, like a double exposure film. Subsequently opened windows, e.g. the log-out window, appear without background, but with the menu items visible. In others, window frames will be visible, but no contents. Re-starting X corrects the screen, if I can get to the logout window. Seems more prone to occur in a text page, or in a browser window. Cannot predictably cause it to happen. Seems unrelated to free memory. On install, Linux correctly found the video card and monitor, and consequent entries in XFree86 config seem correct.
Tried Option "noaccel" and Option "no-bitblt", to no avail.
Any help is appreciated. Below find the screen section of XFree86 config file. If other data would be useful, let me know. Thank you.
John T.
# Screen sections # ********************************************************************** # The Colour SVGA server Section "Screen" Driver "svga" # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device "Generic VGA" Device "Voodoo3 (generic)" Monitor "1500FP" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection # The 16-color VGA server Section "Screen" Driver "vga16" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "1500FP" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection # The Mono server Section "Screen" Driver "vga2" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "1500FP" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64 # I128, and S3V) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "Voodoo3 (generic)" Monitor "1500FP" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection |
