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RobK

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 121

Upgrade to Xorg 7.0 - Screen Jitters

I just upgraded to Xorg 7.0.  Unfortunately, the screen jitters every 5 second or so.  It is very annoying.

I am using an old Toshiba 4020CDT laptop with Chips and Tech CT 65555 Video chipset.

I installed the xf86-video-chips driver.

Any suggestions?

Rob

RobK

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 121

Re: Upgrade to Xorg 7.0 - Screen Jitters

I solved it.  Xorg --configure did not create a proper xorg.conf.  It choose the vesa driver, not the chips driver.  It also did not specify the HorizSync and VertRefresh.

In the Monitor Section, I added the following:

HorizSync   31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0

In the Device section, I changed Driver "vesa" to Driver "chips"

In the Screen section, I added the following:

DefaultDepth 16

Now it works great!

Rob