Sounds like you are using the framebuffer driver in the kernel. This is bad,
as those things tend to get flakey with X and vice versa. When X is running,
it'll screw up the console display and sometimes they won't fix after X is
killed. I follow Paul Foster's credo concerning framebuffer drivers: don't
use them. I have a voodoo3 3000 (same chipset as the banshee), and it works
great. (I've ogl framerates OVER 240fps in tests).
I put my XF86Config file at http://members.acer-access.com/gurensan. I've
changed monitors since then, but this file should drop right in.
Glen
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!
>
>
> Douglas W Koobs MCSE
> Network Engineer
> Dimension Networks, Inc
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