Re: tlug: Colour problem on warm days with NotePC

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> wrote,

> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
> 
> > This is probably not a directly Linux-related question, but
> > more sort of a general hardware problem.  I know observed on
> > two different NotePCs that, on starting X, the colour map or
> > so is wrong, or somehow some colours are displayed wrong on
> > the whole screen.  It seems that this only happens on warm
> > summer days and both machines have been Sony VAIO machines.
> > Interestingly, if you leave X and start it again, the
> > problem is gone, which I find quite strange - as if
> > something goes wrong during initialization.
> > 
> > Did anybody make a similar observation with Sony NotePCs or
> > any other NotePCs?
> 
> If you're using the stock TurboLinux-J Neomagic driver, this happens every
> so often - at least, I've seen it happen where everything is tinted red,
> and I have to quit X and restart to fix it.  If you go to the 2.0J updates
> dir on ftp.pht.co.jp and get the XBF Neomagic server and the new turboxcfg
> package, that should fix it (and provide accelerated neomagic support).

Ok, thanks for the advice!

Manuel
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