I'm installing Slackware Linux 8.0, which contains Xfree 4.1.0 on an older Pentium box with a generic Trident PCI card using the TGUI 9680 chip. I've been struggling with getting Xfree to run properly and finding some odd behaviors that make X unusable. I've done searches on the Web and in both the Xpert and Novice mail archives without finding a clear answer to the problems.
When X starts up, the familiar cross-hatched pattern on the screen appears and the mouse cursor display properly. When I move the mouse, though, it will not reach the top of the display work area. It stops with something on the order of about 100 pixels vertical distance to the top of the work area. The cursor can reach the right, left, and bottom boundaries. When Gnome and the Sawfish window manager start up, it acts as if it is shifted down by that same number of pixels; with some of graphic being "painted" on odd locations on the screen. For example, the clock display on the Gnome taskbar is displayed on numerous locations on the display. Running the mouse cursor over these clocks replaces them with the root window coloring. Eventually, the clocks reappear as the mouse cursor is moved onto other parts of the display. Another element of the taskbar that appears on odd places of the screen is pieces of the "desktop switcher". It exhibts the same behavior with respect to the mouse cursor. Even blank portions the taskbar appear is odd places, so I don't think it is a problem in either of the applets mentioned above. As mentioned at first, I've already done a bit of searching the archives. I've also read the FAQs and manpages for XF86Config and the Trident driver, changing my XF86Config file until I've reached my current start of near-success. I can follow up this post with my XF86Config file and log file if it will help. Right now, I'm looking for a "completely obvious" solution that I've missed. thanks, Mac _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
