Stew mentioned that he has seen this reported on the x86 side and I can confirm. I'm running 8.2b x86 on a box with a r128 (I'm plagued with these cards) and it exhibits the exact same behavior. It never effects anything in KDE on that platform.
sharon Ben Reser wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:08:14AM -0500, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote: > >>Notes on graphical login: >>The background on the graphical login screen looked good, however the login >>box itself did not look good. The buttons looked like normal GDK platinum, >>but the background of the login box seemed to be nonexistent. Instead, it >>was the checkerboard-grey of the default X server background. The user icons >>were displayed on top of it, and there was black text that was barely >>visible due to the grey background. It looks like perhaps it tried to load >>a pixmap for the login box, but was unsuccessful? After logging in and out >>several times, I got various results: sometimes the login box background was >>dark blue, sometimes, black, sometimes the text was clear, sometimes there >>was a moire effect. Errm. For the moment I have switched to runlevel 3 as >>the boot default and am starting X manually. >> > > Odd > >
