Problems with XF86.
I have a PCI Riva TNT2 Vanta.
When starting X it hangs. In both Configs, my card is set correct by
name, but the videoram is hashed out and set to 4096 instead of 32768.
The same problem occurs in RedHat 6.9.5. They recommended me to try
Gnome instead of my choice KDE.
In my Mandrake install I choose to exclude KDE1 and Gnome and others.
When restarting X, after fixing the videoram, as root I got into a plane
blue Desktop with no icons.
With the middle mouse button I was into Gnome and could start Netscape
and get out. The interesting thing is that emacs was indicated as a
possible choice although I had refused to install it. Typical for GTK
there seem to be a lot of loose ends hanging around after the party. Not
much of closed 'modules' in c code.
I tried to fix the problem by an upgrade - and got: An error occurred.
Can't locate object method "search AndMount4Upgrade" via package
"install_steps_gtk".
When I bail out off it all the screen is filled with: Gdk-WARNING can
not set local modifiers at /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 36.
Hope this may help.
Personally I prefer to have my choice respected when I don't trust gnome
code. Try to install ten terminals with scilab launched from each of
them, and as quickly as possible shut them down from the terminals upper
right corner. Then get out off X and check if any loose end shows up.
Regards
guran
