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)."