[Bug 31866] Re: [Bug 31866] Re: Blue Vertical Lines in menus and other places in KDE/QT apps

[afoglia]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, BigMess wrote:

> I had this problem too, and for me, lowering the color depth worked. It
> seems like the video card is running out of memory, that's the cause of
> the vertical lines.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=296520

 	Thanks.  That worked, but I have no idea why.  The card is 
perfectly capable of 24 bit color depth in Windows.  But it wasn't even 
trying in X, so I'm not losing anything.

 	I think it might be a refresh issue, simply because, like you I 
don't have that at all in my xorg.conf and it's the only other thing 
mentioned in the thread.

> And then, restart your X server [CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE]

 	Shouldn't that flash the screen or something?  It did nothing. 
Maybe it's a Gnome vs. XFCE issue.  I just restarted.

> I'm running Dapper, using a Dell Latitude CSx with a NeoMagic MagicMedia
> 256ZX video card.
>
> BTW: Ubuntu with font anti-alias is *very* fast for a 500Mhz processor
> and 2MB video.

 	That's just it, Windows claims I have 6 MB of RAM, so it's not 
like your box where you didn't have the RAM for 24 bit color.


--Anthony

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Blue Vertical Lines in menus and other places in KDE/QT apps
https://launchpad.net/bugs/31866