I am still having trouble after working on it for 6 hours yesterday. I have
worked with both Xconfigurator and xf86config. I have also done some hand
editing to the XF86Config file. I have a Gateway Vivitron 1572, model cpd
15F13, and a SPD TRIO 64 w/ 2MB ram video card. Both came with the machine
when I purchased it from Gateway. I have the specs on the monitor and video
card and tried editing the XF86Config directly but I still have the same
problems of horizontal lines and screen flicker whenever any thing is being
moved on the screen. The S3 Xserver is the one that is being selected and
that appears to be correct. I think the next thing to try is a new package
XFree86. How can I get Mandrake to run in run level three so I can install
it? It always boots up to X and when I do ctrl-alt-bkspace it just restarts
X.
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 6:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Garbled Lines and slow windows, what a mess
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I wasn't even aware that I could select an alternative X server. I have
> 2meg of video ram. I just did the vanilla flavor install. Thanks for
your
> help.
>
Ahh...Ok. You still haven't told us *BRAND* names of video card and
monitors. :-) We'll need that kind of info to help further. :-)
Assuming you have average to superior intelligence (IMNSHO, most
people running Linux have at LEAST average intelligence <G>) you
probably selected your video card when given the option, so you
SHOULD be running the correct X-server, but just to be safe, what vid
card do you have, and what size, brand, model of monitor do you have?
For example, I'm using a CTX 1562D 15" monitor here.
Get back to us with more detailed info and we'll be glad to help. :-)
John
