Re: [SLUG] Banshee card and xfree86 4.0.3

From: patrick (patrick@llc.net)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 22:56:35 EDT


On Sunday 29 April 2001 22:45, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Diamond Monster Fusion Video card (VooDoo Banshee
> chip) and a Phillips 107S monitor. I have tried getting
> XFree86 4.0.3 to work in both Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
> clean installs with the same results in both. Both the card
> and the monitor are found correctly by the install. However,
> when I try to startx, things get weird (using KDE). Hard to
> explain exactly, but here goes: X starts, but everything is
> extremely grainy, the background, icons, everything. The
> cursor looks like a fuzzy rectangle. The K menu is about
> 1/8" wide, and all icons in it (and on the desktop) are
> unreadable. I use the cntrl-alt-backspace to get back to a
> command prompt, and I think it does... but the screen is now
> a jumble of many colors. Pressing alt+F2 through alt+F6
> reveals that all terminals look the same way. But commands
> are accepted... So, I use cntrl-alt-del to reboot.
> I have tried Xconfigurator, and I have manually edited the
> XF86Config file, and even tried the xfree86config (sp?)
> tool, all to no avail. Thanks for any help!
>

i have never heard of your problem. check your bios. make sure
its set right. maybe u have some bad hardware ?

>
> Douglas W Koobs MCSE
> Network Engineer
> Dimension Networks, Inc



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