On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:45:41PM -0400, Douglas W Koobs 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've only ever heard of this (and experienced it) where support for the
video card was spotty or buggy. That may not be the problem here, but
this was my experience.
Paul
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