Re: ghosting with nvidia framebuffer (pci-e 6600), 1600x1200 and 12x22 font

[jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>]

From: jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:04:56PM +0200
> I've bought myself a fine new s939 motherboard, which meant another
> videocard as well. Since I couldn't get an Ati X600 running reliably
> under X.org (#@#$*$ FIFO timed out errors are very frustrating, and the
> only solution I found was to shut down all acceleration, which didn't
> make me happy), I'm now running an Nvidia 6600.
> 
> I'm running at 1600x1200 resolution with the 12x22 font, and a
> 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 kernel.
> 
> A strange effect is noticeable: often characters from the left of the
> screen are ghosted on the right of the screen. Not all of the pixels
> that form a character, but enough to be visible. To my best knowledge,
> the ghosting starts at column 85, and 85 * 12 = 1020, which may mean
> some sort of erroneous wrap-around at pixel 1024 is taking place?
> 
Any others experiencing this? I cc'ed mr Daplas, the maintainer, and I
haven't heard anything.....

Thanks,
Jurriaan
-- 
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."
        Dr. Seuss
Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.13-rc2-mm1 5149 bogomips load 0.49


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