On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:06 +1000, Trent Hennessy wrote: > > I have an acer travelmate 260 laptop, with an intel i830m chipset, running > fedora core 3. My problem is the graphics, the mouse icon is just a > big square fuzzy box, and for example, in kde if u try and go into > the control panel, it will open, but as soon you click on one of the > drop down options for example appearence, it locks up and the screen > flashes and the video goes all funny then blank, looks almost like > its trying to refesh the driver, only way out of this is to shut the > system down by using the power button. whether its kde, gnome, or > even the start up gui, even the install, the mouse is a square fuzzy > box. and on bootup it flickers and stuff aswell. ---- don't know about the acer and display adaptor - perhaps linux-on-laptops might give you some better info...<http://www.linux-laptop.net/> but if you logout <Control><Option><F2> login as root type 'init 3' # to switch to runlevel 3 type 'system-config-display --reconfig' # have another whack at X setup test by typing ' startx ' if it improves, you're good to go. logout of x (shouldn't be running X as root anyway) 'init 5' # back to where you began Craig
