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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1R, #9 771 4M VRAM, ViewSonic 21PS and Slight Flicker
Date: 21 Jan 1996 22:29:56 GMT
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Tom Billman <trb@bottlenose.com> writes:

> I've include a copy of my XF86Config file.  My problem is that I have
> a very slight flicker on the screen.  It's most noticable in the upper
> left-hand and lower right-hand corners.  I'm probably not setting
> things up properly, but I've looked through the XFree documentation and
> this is as far as I can go right now.  Any Ideas?

Look at the output of your X server, which frequencies has it chosen?

(For xdm, look under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors, alternatively,
run X -probeonly, and redirect stderr into a file.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)