Crazy question regarding refresh and X

[Mike Klinke]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 16:24, Jim Cornette wrote:
> I am puzzled why I have a system that is upgraded from an
> installation dated jan 2004 and X not having the refresh problem
> exhibited on the freshly installed system.
>

Jim, 

I note that one has default depth=24 and the other default depth=16.  
On my laptop when I have the gnome properties for the 
display="millions of colors" which I'm guessing is GUI-speak for 24 
bit depth my i815 will not go into Direct Rendering Mode ("glxinfo" 
shows "DRI=no") but when it's set to display="thousands of colors" 
(16 bit depth) "glxinfo" shows that "DRI=yes".  Since your 
configurations are different default depths, is one going into DRI 
and the other not and hence giving you different symptoms?

Regards, Mike Klinke