Re: A slight flicker...any general rules

[Antony Stace <antony claire co jp>]

Thanks for all the comments on this.  I to find that on a Linux box I
have no flicker...but on a Lynx box the flicker appears.  I guess it
must be the graphics driver on that box.

Cheers

Tony


Tom Carter wrote:
> I run SCO and Solaris on the same machine by using removable disks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris <gharris flashcom net>
> To: Tom Carter <tcarter reliable-net net>
> Cc: antony claire co jp <antony claire co jp>; Havoc Pennington
> <hp redhat com>; gtk-list gnome org <gtk-list gnome org>;
> gtk-app-devel-list gnome org <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 12:58
> Subject: Re: A slight flicker...any general rules
>
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:24:03AM -0500, Tom Carter wrote:
> > > From my own experience I believe the flicker is related to the operating
> > > system.  I use GTK 1.2 and have an app that runs under SCO Unix 5.0.5 and
> > > under Solaris 8.  I also change the colors of buttons and there is quite
> a
> > > bit of flicker under SCO but none under Solaris.
> >
> > Yes, it could be an issue of the video driver; which X servers are you
> > using?
> >
> > Are SCO UNIX 5.0.5 and Solaris 8 running on the same machine (yes, it is
> > possible to do so, if the machine is supported both by SCO UNIX 5.0.5
> > and Solaris 8/x86), or, at least, on machines using the same video card?
> > If not, it could also be an issue of the video hardware.