Subject: Re: U10 video on flatscreen
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Volker A. Brandt <vab@bb-c.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/14/2005 17:01:39
> > > > 2. When I hit the backspace key the screen rolls from black on
> > > > while to white on black and then back again. Is something wrong?
> > >
> > > What kind of video hardware are you using? Onboard? Creator?
> > > Something else? In 2.x most things are unaccelerated, this changed
> > > in -current and 3.0
> >
> > On-board does the black white shift thing, the 13w3 (UPA?) just
> > refreshes the screen slowly.
>
> Onboard video in 2.0 is unaccelerated, ffb too it seems. I have no idea
> where the flickering/shifting comes from - I don't have an ffb card and
> the first thing I did with my U10 was to add acceleration and so on for
> the onboard framebuffer.

This sounds like a "visual bell".  When you press backspace, does the
phenomenon happen only in the leftmost column?


HTH -- Volker
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