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On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:55 -0400, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't |
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> stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I |
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> switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true |
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> text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip |
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> to X for surfing/spreadsheets/etc. When I do, I find that the colours |
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> on my current machine's display are corrupted. Clicking on a window |
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> will reset most of the colours, but the window title-bar still looks |
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> like colour confetti. |
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> Background info... I'm running 32-bit X86 Gentoo on an Intel Core2 |
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> Duo cpu. "lspci -v" shows the integrated video controller twice, as |
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> both 00:00.0 and as 00:02.0, like so... |
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> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM |
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> Controller (rev 02) |
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> Subsystem: Dell Device 020d |
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> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 |
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> Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?> |
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> Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel |
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> Kernel modules: intel-agp |
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> |
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> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express |
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> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) |
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> Subsystem: Dell Device 020d |
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> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 |
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> Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] |
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> I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] |
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> Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] |
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> Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] |
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> Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 |
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> Enable- |
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> Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 |
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If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. |
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Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and |
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flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two. |