[CentOS] New X crappy for older stuff?

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Thu Aug 24 17:45:08 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 13:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:

Clarification: the scroll issues is when I enter a lower resolution, I
have off-screen turf and I move the mouse to the edge to move in the
virtual arena. Not scrolling as in firefox , etc. That's all OK.

> While burning in a new desktop Epox KT-880 workstation, I'm running on
> my old K6-III at 360MHz. Before new X updates (put everything in today,
> kernel, elfutils, ntpd - Selinux issues? - xorg, ...) with my PCI ATI
> 7000 (Radeon) on a 19" Samsung 950b @ 1024x768 (one of 5 different
> resolutions I commonly use), I could scroll smoothly at reasonable
> rates.
> 
> With the new stuff I get severe flickering. As if the screen is
> "blanking", showing a little, "blanking", showing a little, ...
> 
> It's really horrible. Anybody else got some old stuff that does(n't)
> have symptoms? I'll say bye to this update shortly I guess, security be
> damned. I'm the only user and IPCop protects me.
> 
> TIA
> 
> BTW: 4.4? Anything left for that?  :-)
> 
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Bill
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