On Tuesday 04 September 2001 02:34 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > On Monday 03 September 2001 04:56 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > > I had better results with sybil than I am having with WS 3.1 as
> > > you may remember.
> >
> > I do remember.  I even got a colleague to burn an ISO of sybil so I
> > could fuss with it but it looked like a time sink.  I'm now dealing
> > with XFree problems (I think).  Another story later. . . .
>
> I am looking at installing Mandrake 8.1 as soon as its released. I
> have tried 8.0 and it looks and does what it says it will very well,
<snip>

Since you mention it, I will tell you my Mandrake problem and you may 
comment if you have an idea.  I have twice loaded up different Mandrake 
versions, including 8.0 that I got from the Linux conference.  It seems 
to install fine, but when I get to testing the X config, I get very 
strange behavior.  It looks like the various X graphics layers needed 
to make GUI items like a button, text field, colored background, get 
shifted so that they don't all overlap.  Then when the X log-in manager 
appears, and later the KDE desktop, the problem remains, making the 
desktop unusable.  I had a similar problem with the Lizard graphic 
install of Caldera 3.1;  poor resolution and then each successive step 
in the installation process appears on top of the previous one as if 
they were all transparent, making the screen unreadable after about 
three screens.  Is it possible that this is some problem with my 
graphics card (an on-board Cirrus Logic chip) in the way it talks to 
the X server??

-- 
Tony Alfrey
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