On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Andrew A. Gill wrote: > > I finally decided to install all of the errata for my system, and now I'm > > having trouble with X. Meta trouble. Every time I try to explain it, I > > keep saying things like ``the pictures are in the right place, but the > > widgets are all in the top quarter of the screen.''
> > Which causes most people to say ``Huh?'' and then, ``Can you provide a > > screenshot?'' But since the text for the menus is in the quarter, it > > becomes very difficult to take a screenshot. > > So I'm asking for some help. I've got the screenshot here: > > <http://www.frontiernet.net/~superluser/screen.jpg> > > I think my explanation is pretty clear, but I seem to be alone in this > > opinion. > > Does anyone know what's going on? I'm running kernel 2.4.21, and while > > this happens on 4.1.0-25, I'm running 4.0.3 right now, and so I can't send > > the XF86Config file (unless someone really wants me to upgrade and thinks > > it'll help). > > I also attempted to install XFree-4.3.0-2, but it keeps whining about > > kernel-drm 4.3. (I'm running 2.4.21, darn it! It oughta be current > > enough!) > Well, I got 4.3.99.11-0.3 installed, but I'm still having the same > problems. That's on an ATI Rage98 (PCI version, I don't have an AGP > port). Listed below are links to my XF86Config, XF86Config-4 and > var/log/XFree86.0.log (it looks like the time zone's been reset to UTC, > I'll have to correct that...). > <http://www.frontiernet.net/~superluser/XF86Config> > <http://www.frontiernet.net/~superluser/XF86Config-4> > <http://www.frontiernet.net/~superluser/XFree86.0.log> > And it didn't whine about kernel-drm. It wouldn't, given there's no support for it with Mach64 variants. > Suggestions? What effect does Option "NoAccel" have? Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
