The funky, neat-o, disco-esque shimmer effect is caused by your display trying to draw more colors than either it supports natively (shouldn't be an issue with an active matrix display) or trying to draw colors that aren't in the system palette. I suspect that your problem stems from the latter.
The 5300cs (and some PowerBooks 5300c) only has 512KB of VRAM on the logic board. That's just enough to display 8-bit color at 640x480. To display thousands of colors (16-bit color) you need 1MB of VRAM. I find it a little surprising, actually, that after you upgraded your display you have the option of using 1000's of colors. Short answer: Reducing to 256 colors should reduce the shimmering. I'm in the midst of a project to upgrade the VRAM on my 5300cs motherboard from 512KB to 1024KB. I've soldered the RAM on and double checked everything, but the ce display I have still doesn't work correctly. It's not immediately obvious where the problem lies - except for a missing 8MB RAM on the cs motherboard, the ce and cs variants now look pretty darn similar, right down to the CPU speed ;-) Both are now 117MHz... Peace, Drew -- <http://homepage.mac.com/alk/> "There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'" -- Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
