Hi Jerry, One question since you mention Yast2 also has the problem. Are you running a frame buffer? Yast2 uses a vesa frame buffer Xserver and your card will need to be vesa 2.0 compliant in order for it to work properly. I ask because I have a similiar card that is not (IIRC it's vesa 1.2) and my first run in with Yast2 on that machine was not pretty. Removing all traces of frame buffers and booting CD2 fixed the problem. That's all I can think of for now. Good luck Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Feldman [SMTP:gaf@blu.org] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 11:18 AM
I recently upgraded from SuSE 6.2 to 6.3, and have been experiencing some problems related to video. (I first performed an upgrade install then a fresh install). The problems are: Viewed in Netscape mostly). The text curser only displays a couple of dots. It's there, but barely visible.
When logging out of KDE, I get vertical bands rather than the change of intensity of the background.
In StarOffice I also get the bands when moving windows.
SAX hangs the system when I go into the configuration panel, before I actually configure the modes. My hardware is: Pentium II 233 w/128MB SDRAM. 2 NICs 1 Soundblaster AWE 64. 1 Advansys SCSI w/Cd-ROM and JAZ. 3 IDE drives. Logitech Marble PS/2 mouse on PS/Aux port. Video Board is an ATI Xpert@work AGP 4MB (mach 64). Monitor is:Digital FR-PCXBV-KA. I have double checked the settings in XF86Config against the specs for the monitor as well as the XF86Config.eg and and XF86Config built on my Alpha which is running Red Hat 6.1.
I have played with the font paths, reloaded X and the fonts. XF86Setup also gives me garbage, but does not hang.
I have run SAX in run level 1. My kernel is modular (2.2.13) with 686 instruction set and software floating point disabled.
This used to work under 6.2. I have applied all the relevant patches from the SuSE update site. One thing I have not tried is to put in another video board. I have an Expert98 8MB PCI, but I am out of IRQs. I might try pulling out one of the NICS. This is really strange since I prefer SuSE to Red Hat, but I might install Red Hat 6.1 just to see if it works. (BTW: it also appears that YaST2 has the same problem). -- Jerry Feldman
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