More information: at a lower clock, even at 1024x768 the lines seem to be less of a problem. At 832x624, this artifact is not apparent. Thank you for all the help. Alan On 11/25/05, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > Following up: The solution proposed by Hans was somewhat successful. The > buffer update problem has apparently been solved at a higher of 1024x768. > > Wavy vertical lines are still evident. This I can ignore, however. At > 862 > On 11/21/05, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > > > I think Hans's idea makes sense, since it was the file storm.c that was > > patched in the first place by others. I'll have to wait, because I've > > started a new gentoo install due to problems detecting the /boot partition > > in my machine. I botched an attempt to move data from that partition to the > > / partition. > > > > I have been able to do 1064x768 at 16 or 24 bits. Even 1100something x > > something worked, perhaps not as perfectly. > > > > Thank you for so many great answers, in great depth. I will see what > > comes about in a day or two. It's tricky to do this on a dialup. > > > > Alan Davis > > > > On 11/20/05, Walter Dnes < waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:57:12PM -0600, kashani wrote > > > > > > > The Mystique has 4mb of RAM upgradeable to 8mb IIRC. It was likely0 > > > > new in '95-'96 as I scraped together $140 to by the slightly better > > > > Matrox Millennium used off Ebay in '96. The Mystique did not do well > > > > > > > at higher resolutions, which is why I went with the Millennium. I'd > > > > shoot for 800x600 and go from there. > > > > > > 1024x768 at 24bits (16 million colours) should be doable. > > > > > > -- > > > Walter Dnes < waltdnes@waltdnes.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 > > > My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > >