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Received: from mail.one.net (mail.one.net [198.30.92.102]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA10479 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 19:30:33 -0800 Received: from garnet (collins@port-1-7.access.one.net [198.30.116.17]) by mail.one.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA18541; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:30:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:30:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert A. Collins" <collins@one.net> X-Sender: collins@garnet To: Tom Kludy <tkludy@engin.umich.edu> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Screen flicker In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951118034320.24153A-100000@orange.engin.umich.edu> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951127232501.107A-100000@garnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Tom Kludy wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Robert A. Collins wrote: > > > I have just started checking out executor and I am very impressed: > > way cool! > > > > I do have an issue, the addressing of which, may improve the product. > > I am running executor on a system where the display (not executor) is > > a 17" MAG DX17F at 1024x768 resolution. When running executor, the > > Mac's pretty horizontal lines in the drag bar flicker (not dissimular > > to the ever popular problem with NTSC). This problem could be addressed > > by having an option to set the drag bars to gray (like copland?). > > > > BTW, although it shouldn't matter, I am running executor on Linux. > > What is your video card? If it is supported correctly in SVGAlib, and > set up correctly, and you have enough video memory, you should be able to > run in non-interlaced mode.. > > -Tom Kludy > I am running executor under X (XFree86) using a generic Tseng Labs ET4000/W32 chip w/ 1MB card. Shouldn't matter though. The issue is the graphic of the drag bar is fine horz lines. They don't flicker when I use a lower resolution. ===================================================================== Bob Collins r.collins@ieee.org use STD.Disclaimer.all; collins@one.net =====================================================================