On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Robert Yelle wrote:
> Jeffry Smith wrote:
>
> > I installed Debian 2.2 on my home system (a dual PPro with 128MB of
> > memory, S3 Trio3D video card w/4MB of memory, IBM POWERDisplay/20
> > monitor [1280x1024@60 or 77 Hz, multifrequency], Logitech trackball).
> > X works fine (using
> > the recommended SVGA server, X version 3.3.6). However, when I try to
> > use GNOME on top of X, the screen disappears into a bunch of little
> > stripes, and the keyboard locks up (even alt-ctrl-backspace doesn't
> > work). This was with the GNOME 1.0.53 from Debian. I installed Helix
> > (GNOME 1.2), same problem. I've done XF86Setup, both putting the
> > memory in and letting it probe. I use the IMP/2 selection for the
> > trackball, mouse seems to work. Has anyone else seen
> > this problem, or have a clue as to why it happens? Equally important
> > as to the why, anyone have a clue as to how to solve it?
> >
> > jeff
> >
>
> Did you boot up in runlevel3 and run Xconfigurator? (it could be redhat
> specific)
> Their is a standard warning that reads as follows:
>
> " For accelerated servers (including accelerated drivers in the a SVGA
> server), there are many chipset and card-specific options and settings.
> This program does not know about these. On some a configurations some of
> these settings must be specified. Refer to the server man pages and
> chipset-specific READMEs.
>
> Before continuing with this program, make sure you know the chipset and
> amount of video memory on your video card. SuperProbe can help with this."
>
> This may point out your problem
>
> Rob Yelle
>
Xconfigurator is Red Hat specific (and debian does run levels
differently). Actually, I've never gotten Xconfigurator to run right
on any HW I've installed X on, I always end up going to XF86Setup
(part of Xfree86 at that). Debian's anXious (their equiv to
Xconfigurator?) messed it up as well, so I went back to XF86Setup. I
also ran xvidtune afterwords, but straight X seems to be working OK.
I'll check the .gnome-errors file tonight.
thank
jeff
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