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Re: [SLE] 9.0 Menus
- From: Fred Miller <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:06:28 -0500
- Message-id: <200310312206.28605.fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 30 October 2003 4:48 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Fred -
>
> Thanks for your help with my menu problem. However, the nvidia drivers are
> one of the few things actually correct about my X installation - my
> XF86Config already has "nvidia" in it and not "nv" and 3D acceleration is
> working great.
Glad to hear it!
> I would never have guessed, though, that the X driver could be connected to
> the menu problem. If this is the case, then my X setup could still be to
> blame.
I don't think it is.
> You see, when I installed SuSE 9.0 (a clean install, by the way),
> everything went great until the X server was started - then I got a blue
> box marching across my screen with some complaint about sync rates. I had
> to back out of X and try and fix the problem with sax2. My monitor is a
> Samsung Syncmaster 957df. This is not in Sax's monitor database so it was
> defaulting to another syncmaster model. I had quite a struggle to force
> sax2 to relent on its monitor choice but eventually I got it to accept VESA
> 1280x1024@75mhz. This gave me a working X system. However, to this day, if
> I launch sax2 from a text console, I get the same marching blue box. If I
> launch it from an xterm the video system locks up completely. I *can*
> configure the display however from within the KDE Control Centre using the
> Yast2 module. (one odd point - yast2 insists that 3d acceleration is
> switched off and will not retain the setting if I switch it on. 3d
> acceleration is however working anyway). Startx from the command line loads
> up KDE fine as well.
I haven't the "blue box."
> So something is seriously broken in my X setup and this could be causing
> the menu problem. But what?
No.......positive it's not. It has to be a bug in KDE.
> I must say I'm a little displeased since 8.1 installed perfectly on this
> very machine. Why am I having such basic problems now?
It's nVidia's fault!! If the fools would simply give the team writing drivers
what they need, all would be well.
> Anyway, I think I'll refer my X Window problem to SuSE installation
> support. They may be able to help.
I hope so!
Fred
--
"...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly)."
> Hi Fred -
>
> Thanks for your help with my menu problem. However, the nvidia drivers are
> one of the few things actually correct about my X installation - my
> XF86Config already has "nvidia" in it and not "nv" and 3D acceleration is
> working great.
Glad to hear it!
> I would never have guessed, though, that the X driver could be connected to
> the menu problem. If this is the case, then my X setup could still be to
> blame.
I don't think it is.
> You see, when I installed SuSE 9.0 (a clean install, by the way),
> everything went great until the X server was started - then I got a blue
> box marching across my screen with some complaint about sync rates. I had
> to back out of X and try and fix the problem with sax2. My monitor is a
> Samsung Syncmaster 957df. This is not in Sax's monitor database so it was
> defaulting to another syncmaster model. I had quite a struggle to force
> sax2 to relent on its monitor choice but eventually I got it to accept VESA
> 1280x1024@75mhz. This gave me a working X system. However, to this day, if
> I launch sax2 from a text console, I get the same marching blue box. If I
> launch it from an xterm the video system locks up completely. I *can*
> configure the display however from within the KDE Control Centre using the
> Yast2 module. (one odd point - yast2 insists that 3d acceleration is
> switched off and will not retain the setting if I switch it on. 3d
> acceleration is however working anyway). Startx from the command line loads
> up KDE fine as well.
I haven't the "blue box."
> So something is seriously broken in my X setup and this could be causing
> the menu problem. But what?
No.......positive it's not. It has to be a bug in KDE.
> I must say I'm a little displeased since 8.1 installed perfectly on this
> very machine. Why am I having such basic problems now?
It's nVidia's fault!! If the fools would simply give the team writing drivers
what they need, all would be well.
> Anyway, I think I'll refer my X Window problem to SuSE installation
> support. They may be able to help.
I hope so!
Fred
--
"...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly)."
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