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| Ron Gibson... |
 Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:53 pm |
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:03:49 -0400, "Aaron W. Hsu"
<arcfide at (no spam) sacrideo.us> wrote:
Quote: Try disabling the compositing, the compiz special niceties, and the
speciale effects that KDE does. That might remedy the problem. The Screen
Flicker I usually see happens on the Splash screen when KDE switches from
normal X to a sort of composited system that uses more of the graphics
card for OpenGL or some such.
Well I said I'd keep quiet for now but you just nailed the latest
thing I noticed. Basically when I startx if I quickly drop to a TTY
before that flicker happens I have text.
But it appears anything after that point that causes that flicker
kills TTY text.
I'm getting ready right now to go try several things so more later on
that.
Like I said I really have to rule out that it's only a KDE problem
because if it happens in XFCE then it must be an issue with X itself
or possibly the video driver.
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| Ron Gibson... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:51 pm |
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:03:49 -0400, "Aaron W. Hsu"
<arcfide at (no spam) sacrideo.us> wrote:
Quote: Try disabling the compositing, the compiz special niceties, and the
speciale effects that KDE does. That might remedy the problem. The Screen
Flicker I usually see happens on the Splash screen when KDE switches from
normal X to a sort of composited system that uses more of the graphics
card for OpenGL or some such.
Finally. That did the trick. BTW, I've encountered Compiz while
testing other distros (curiosity) but I've always immediately disabled
or removed it.
I'm sure glad to get past that because I'm chomping at the bit to get
working on video (now that includes capture in Linux since I finally
got my Twinhan card to work), dvd authoring and mastering.
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| Ron Gibson... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:53 pm |
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On 11 Oct 2009 23:03:33 GMT, Dan C <youmustbejoking at (no spam) lan.invalid>
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Quote: For Ron or anyone else wondering how to disable compositing, I had this
stanza in my xorg.conf from Slack 12.2, which worked great:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
Yeah that did the trick. Tanks :=)
Quote: I simply added that to the very end of the xorg.conf file. I don't seem
to need it with the new X in Slack 13.
Odd. It was just the opposite for me. This is the first time I've had
to do it - 12.2 didn't need that stanza.
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| Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:29 am |
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Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide at (no spam) sacrideo.us> wrote:
Quote: Under SlackWare12.2 (and earlier) I had my screen configured to be
1268x1024 pixels and was shown a part of it. This smaller screen
could be enlarged (or reduced) by pressing <ctr><alt>+(-).
What I think you were doing was changing the screen resolution, which is
not something you'll normally want to do. Instead, you should use
something like KMag to magnify the screen sections that you want to read.
I'm sorry for responding this late. Both the health of my PC and of myself
decided to fail lately.
Maybe that's what you call it. I'm not very good at technical terms. But it
was very convenient. Why do you think changing the resolutio is not a good
thing? This KMag I don't like very much: it only shows part of the screen,
and always happens to be in front of the part you want to see.
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| Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:31 am |
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Grant <g_r_a_n_t_ at (no spam) bugsplatter.id.au> wrote:
Quote: OP needs to add some extra resolution settings to xorg.conf.
I copied the relevant lines from my old xogr.conf, but that did not help.
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| Aaron W. Hsu... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:56 pm |
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:29:49 -0400, Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen
<jbeekhui at (no spam) duinheks.nl> wrote:
Quote: Maybe that's what you call it. I'm not very good at technical terms. But
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was very convenient. Why do you think changing the resolutio is not a
good
thing? This KMag I don't like very much: it only shows part of the
screen,
and always happens to be in front of the part you want to see.
Generally, when you lose resolution, you lose a lot of clarity and often
times, programs won't quite lay out correctly. Usually, if things are two
small to see, you can increase the font sizes that are used, and you'll
get larger text that is clearer and generally easier on the eyes. Buttons
and icons can be done this way as well. You'll be able to get the best of
both worlds that way, unless there is something specific that doesn't
work, in which case, usually KMag is enough to adjust it.
On the other hand, there should not be any problem with adjusting the
screen sizes that you have available to you. You should be able to do this
through the System Settings, and you should be able to set the system to a
screen resolution that suits you.
Aaron W. Hsu
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