On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My system has a problem with display, with the screen showing a constant
>flicker. This problem occurs only in Linux but not in Windoze. It wasn't
>apparent until I started using the GUI mode more often recently. Its so bad
>that I have started getting headaches since the last few days
<snip a bit>
>I have a Cirrus Logic GD5430 (Rev 0) Display card with 2MB RAM. In the
>Windoze Device Manager, it is listed has having an internal DAC. It was
>autodetected in Xconfigurator. I am using a "Generic Multisync" setting for
>my Samtron 4Bi ... the monitor might not be the problem; I tried editing
>the monitor settings manually in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but there was no
>improvement.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Sameer.
More likely the monitor, I have the same card with 1M of ram, but no flicker,
even when moving windows around. The only noticable flicker is when I run those
ten xeyes simulatneously and jerk my mouse around.
Try using a generic monitor with a lower bit depth (or just lower the bitdepth)
Devdas Bhagat
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