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From: chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS)
Subject: Re: Where the black spots on my X windows come from?
Message-ID: <1993Feb22.132703.16286@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 13:27:03 GMT
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I wrote
>There are black spots on my twm pop-up menu and on some of applications
>such as gs (ghostscript) and xfig ( it is worst in xfig, it also has
>lines too.) It is regardless the background / foreground color
>of windows, they are always black. It is also regardless which video
>mode is on "640x480" or "1024x768". When the pop-up window is gone,
>the stain will be left on the other windows underneath it, but not the
>portion was on the root window (namely the root window background is
>always clean). I can clean the stain left on the
>other window by refreshing windows. But I cannot clean the stains on
>gs or xfig. ....
The problem is solved by changing the bus-clockrate by using bios-setup.
Arnd Gehrmann @zeus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de told me this.
Arnd, thanks. I really appreciated.
I have got numerous responses. I would like to express my appreciation
to all the people offering me the help. I learn a lot from you.
---Susie Chu
net address: chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
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