Sorry, yes it's on i386. No,I  haven't tried disabling those options; but
I didn't think it was an X problem, more of a NetBSD problem. The system
is currently running 1.5H, but I've experienced the problem as long as I
can remember, and with different video cards etc.

Jared

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:41:29 +0100 (BST)
> From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
> Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Problems with various window managers
> 
> 	You don't mention on what port you are running - assuming i386,
> 	have you tried turning off any accelleration options in your
> 	/etc/X11/XF86Config?
> 
>                 David/absolute
> 			       -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> 
> > I've been having one fairly serious problem with two window managers ever
> > since I first started using NetBSD. I don't know what causes it, and it's
> > difficult to describe. But basically, the window borders on windows go
> > black in Sawfish and Enlightenment at times, and once one goes black all
> > of the others do the same until the WM is restarted. An example of what
> > happens: http://invisible.yi.org/~jmcneill/black.png, note the AbiWord
> > window.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> >
> 
>