Here's a note I sent to Linuxcare about my Mandrake 6.1 install problems.
Perhaps one of the list members has a suggestion, too. Thanks!!
System:
Pentium II, 400 MHz, 256 MB on Intel 440 BX motherboard, two scsi 9 GB drives
Dual-boot Win98 and three other ext2 partitions, using Boot Magic
Video chip = Cirrus Logic 5480 PCI on motherboard, 2 MB RAM
scsi controller = ncr53C875 on motherboard
Currently running Caldera 2.3/KDE 1.1.2 on second drive.
Problem:
Purchased "Deluxe Linux O/S 6.5" (from Fry's Elec.). Installation goes fine,
linux runs well in run level 3. X appears broken. For example, the Mandrake
login graphic window, each component of which is assembled from different
graphic layers, has portions cut up and shifted. Color block background for one
window may be offset to the side, frame for a text window may be shifted down,
text for two buttons may be overlapped, text for one window may be covered by
the shifted color background from another button. Of course, since kde is
built on X, it is an even bigger mess. For example, drag a window and it
leaves a trail of pieces of itself behind.
This is not an XF86Setup problem. Monitor is working fine (16 bpp,
1024x768), I know my sync rates!! As a sanity check, I installed Red Hat 5.2
from an old VA Research disk circa very early 1999 which has virtually the same
install package and it installs with no problem. Then upgraded it with the
"6.5" disk and X is now a mess again.
Incidentally, I had the exact same problem with a virtually identical Mandrake
disk from a book "GNU C++ For Linux".
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I'd rather be sailing"
