black laser Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Hello All, Pardon me if I'm a little slow on the uptake, I'm a little new to this stuff. I have successfully installed uphuck 10.4.9 on an external usb hd for my Dell Vostro 1500 laptop. Since I didn't attempt to install any kind of Nvidia graphics driver, (since apparently it wouldnt work for the onboard 8400 that comes with this computer) I believe I am using the default Vesa driver. Doesn't look real sharp, which doesn't bother me that much, but if I move a window I get all kinds of artifacts which can make the screen unreadable until I click outside of the window which seems to update the screen. Some applications like Safari seem to be harder to use because the screen does not update very well when you click outside the window. I guess the refresh is kind of slow inside of the application's window as well. I am trying to use Garageband and the waveform/midi editor window is almost impossible to use because of slow/quirky screen refresh. Is this typical for the Vesa driver? Is this what is referrred to here as "tearing"? Short of actually having the right driver for the display adapter, is there any way to improve this? I don't need to play games or anything would just like make things more usable. It looks like may be some hope for new Nvidea kexts etc elsewhere on this forum if I updated to Leopard. Just starting out, thanks for your help. -b Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79184-vesa-graphics-driver/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
black laser Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 kerplunk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79184-vesa-graphics-driver/#findComment-564824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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