EDGY updates?

[Matthew Kuiken]

SteVe Cook wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:09:41 +1300
>> Dion LeBlanc <obsidion at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>>>    BTW is anybody else having problems with Xorg? I get what looks
>>>> likes static lines when I scroll. In firefox for example I can see
>>>> them in the scroll bar area but not on the main page. I have tried
>>>> reconfiguring, and my hardware is certainly not exotic.
>>>>
>>>    
>>>   That sounds like a wrong refresh rate and/or vertical ...
>>> horizontal setting check them out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or reset from
>>> a tty sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Basically I think edgy is
>>> throwing a lot of hassles at we users.
>>
>>    Nope. The proper vertical/horizontal rates are in xorg.conf...and I have already reconfigured
>> xserver-xorg. Strange but Dapper didn't have the problem. Seems to be something in the 7.0 series of xorg.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> I installed edgy on a 866MHz PIII with a nVidia MX400 video card this 
> afternoon and have been surfing on it for the past couple of hours and 
> the problem hasn't shown it's self.  It still shows on the old i810 
> based machine, a lot more than I realised now I'm looking for it.
> It does get worse the more the machine is stressed.  With an audio 
> player and a couple of instances of OOo open it does occur more then if 
> only one app is open.  Looks like It could be fun isolating this one!
> 
> SteVe
> 
Just a thought, but the i810 shares main memory for the graphics memory. 
  I wonder if the problem is that the graphics memory is not properly 
reserved.  That said, I have no idea how to check if this is the case...

You might want to try putting a VideoRAM line in your xorg.conf.

-Matt