From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.0.7-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: I see a flicker when using any light coloured desktop background, including the default. A dark coloured background (any background with significant portions of black) doesn not display this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start x with default background 2. 3. Actual Results: see flicker Expected Results: no flicker Additional info: 8x AGP based nvidia card (WinFast A180) ASUS 87V8x motherboard
sorry - should have mentioned using nv driver
Created attachment 119666 [details] xorg.conf xorg.conf config file
Created attachment 119667 [details] lspci -v output
(In reply to comment #0) > From Bugzilla Helper: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.0.7-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.7 > > Description of problem: > I see a flicker when using any light coloured desktop background, including the default. A dark coloured background (any background with significant portions of black) doesn not display this problem. > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm > > How reproducible: > Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1.start x with default background > 2. > 3. > > > Actual Results: see flicker > > Expected Results: no flicker > > Additional info: > > 8x AGP based nvidia card (WinFast A180) > ASUS 87V8x motherboard Of course that should read ASUS A7V8X motherboard
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I can't see how it's a hardware issue as there are no flickering issues when using the drivers supplied by nvidia.
NVIDIA hardware support is no longer being updated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Please use newer versions of RHEL for updated hardware support.