Re: FVWM: garbled screen for big outputs

Donald R Laster Jr <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
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I would suspect the video driver.  I have a Intel machine that is running Slackware 14.0 and the display works fine with xterms but when graphics are involved the display of the graphics has problems.  I would check for a graphics driver update.

   I think this is the right information from the dmesg file:

   input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input6
   ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
  [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

    Don

Stuart Longland wrote on 09/21/2017 05:24 AM:
> On 21/09/17 18:30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2017, E Frank Ball wrote:
>>> Try xterm, or rxvt, or gnome-terminal
>>
>>     thanks Frank, and also Dan , for your suggestions, but
>>     the problem is actually with xterm.
>>     I also tried with rxvt: it's worse.
>>     Withe kde x-terminal-emulator, no problem.
>
> That would be Konsole, unless they've made a new one.
>
>>     Here are the results of different tests
>>
>>     ==> xterm -geometry 100x40+0+70 -ls   good
>>     ==> xterm -geometry 120x40+0+70 -ls   garbled screen
>>
>>     ==> rxvt -geometry 80x40+0+70 -ls     good
>>     ==> rxvt -geometry 100x40+0+70 -ls    garbled screen
>>
>> It looks like a bug, and I think I'll do a bug report, unless somebody
>> suggests something else.
>
> I'd be suspicious of the video drivers… perhaps Xlib (xterm, rxvt?) is
> triggering some bug in the video driver that Qt (Konsole) isn't.
> qterminal is another Qt-based terminal emulator that might confirm
> whether the widget set is having an effect.
>

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