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Re: [TCLUG:1713] Display Question



This is kinda surprising, I thought I saw somewhere that Gateway was
testing Linux for the last 6 months and was planning to offer it as a
preinstalled software soon.

Jon



At 12:54 AM 10/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I would generally blame this type of thing on Gateway; their monitors are,
>from my experience, CHEAP. Of course, you could try downloading the demo
>of AccelX, and see if it works better than XFree.. that'd rule out
>X-Server incompatibilities (maybe).
>
>-Nate Carlson
> The Infinite Loop
> natecars@infiniteloop.com
>
>On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Hans Umhoefer wrote:
>
>> This is probably going to be a rather broad question but I'm looking for a 
>> little peace of mind. Of late i have been having trouble with my display. 
>> Sometimes it has a yellow tint to it. This happens off and on while I'm 
>> working on it. It began when I had gotten my monitor replaced because my 
>> old one died on me and thus it appeared to be a hardware problem so I 
>> convinced Gateway to send me another monitor (which didn't fix anything)
and 
>> then a whole new motherboard (integrated video sucks, but if Gateway
want's to 
>> send me a brand new mother board and processor because the vid card is 
>> goofy I'm not going to complain).. None of these things fixed the problem, 
>> so I'm beginning to wonder if it's a software problem. I observed the 
>> first in Linux but it appeared in Win 95 as well. Now with the new board 
>> and all, Win 95 seems to be ok, however I still have trouble with it in 
>> Linux. I didn't think it was a software problem in Linux because I 
>> observed the tinting while I was working in console, X or running an 
>> SVGAlib application. I have an ATI Mach64 3d rage II and am running the 
>> latest redhat rpm's of the Mach64 X server, the SVGAlib support f the 
>> Mach64 seems to be lacking so I use a standard VGA driver when playing 
>> quake. Is there some software bug or setting that could be causing this 
>> behavior, or possibly damaging my hardware so that it begins to happen in 
>> Win 95 as well? I apologize for the broadness f this question but I'd 
>> hate to keep having Gateway send me new parts only to have it be 
>> something I was doing in Linux. Gateway is not very supportive of Linux 
>> and almost refused to help me with some other troubles I was having when 
>> they found out I was running it. I think they've forgotten about it or 
>> they wouldn't be sending me all this new stuff.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I realize this is a pretty 
>> broad topic.
>> 
>> Hans
>> 
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