RE: PXES 0.9, WYSE 5150SE, X nsc driver, screenartifacts

Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]> Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:44:40 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pxes.devel
Organization PXES Universal Linux Thin Client
Message-ID <1112712280.5835.3.camel@zebra>
Dan,
Firstly, thanks for you comments.

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 05:10, Dan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:18 -0300, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:42, C. Falconer wrote:
> > > If that's hard to do, consider taking either a screen dump if you can, or
> > > digital camera photo of the screen.
> > Digital photo would be the best option.
> 
> Ok, I took some screenshots:
> 
> http://www.x32.com.au/temp/fc2-pxes-xdmcp-screenartifacts.png
> 
> http://www.x32.com.au/temp/fc2-xdmcp-pxes.jpg
> 
> The first screen shot shows a full desktop. The black pixels are the
> artifacts I'm referring to.
> 
> The second is a picture taken with my mobile phone, a close up of the
> "Start Here" icon. Pretty useless.
> 
> Its funny you mentioned the VESA driver in your earlier email. Today I
> built a PXES with the VESA driver. The artifacts don't appear when using
> the VESA driver.
There's no need to build a new image, specifying xd=vesa or
X_DRIVER=vesa in kernel command line does the trick.
> 
> Interestingly enough, the artifacts only seem to appear when the mouse
> motion contains some "west" element. If i very carefully move the mouse
> only North, South or East, the artifacts do not appear.
> 
> The VESA driver is working fine for us right now, so I'm happy. PXES
> really is a great piece of work. IMO it is far better than the new WYSE
> Linux v6, which comes pre-installed on these terminals.
> 
> I would still like to nail this issue with the nsc driver, if anyone is
> interested.
> 
> Thanks for the help so far,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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