> I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome (using > Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I > booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome > is really supposed to look and I like what I saw. So my question is:
> How can I remove the grainyness out of my X install? > I have 2.2 and installed helix-gnome from spidermonkey .deb files and I have a > 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X vidcard with 8MB ram and using 1024x768 res and 32 bpp. > My resolution is no problem it's only this grainy texture that bothers me. It sounds like you're not actually running at 32 bpp. If I remember correctly, there is a file in /proc that lists the X-server specs. It should have the bpp you're actually running (assuming X is running at the time). Or, you could simply comment all lines out of your /etc/X11/XF86Config that refer to other bit depths (8, 15, 16, 24), then, restart X! There is also a command line flag for "startx" to pass the bpp but I don't remember that off hand either (soemthing like "start --bpp 16"). Do a "man startx". The "startx" assumes you don't use a gradical display manager to login (xdm, kdm, gdm). Scott