On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 00:11, Ron Daniel wrote: > I am running Mandrake 9.0 (dual boot) on a Compaq EVO 800N. I have a > display problem the cause and recurrence of which I cannot fathom or > reproduce on demand. I am running KDE windows manager > > The symptoms of the problem are that upon termination of a program, and > it does not appear to be dependent on a program, the screen display goes > haywire. The screen appears to be broken up into about 30 or so > horizontal segments all of which abutt one another vertically and all of > which are joined together by a thin white line from the top right corner > of the segment above to the top left corner of the segment below.
I don't have this machine, or this exact problem, but I do have one example of weird screen behavior I can report. I gave my Toshiba Tecra 780 to my Dad. We tried Redhat 8 and 9 on it, and the display does several things: 1) Flickers badly. A very low refresh rate, or maybe an interlacing mode. 2) When we try switching to console mode with a framebuffer (for higher text resolution - it's a 1024x768 LCD) the screen appears to melt, with some distinction into horizontal segments and other difficult to describe in words behavior. This sounds more relevant to your experience. I solved this by using XFree86 3.3.6. XFree86 4 drivers didn't play well with this chipset (S3 Virge/MX). This is true in Debian as well as the Redhats. So, what's your chipset, and how old is your laptop (I'm not up on Compaqs)? Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
