Hello, all:
I'm new to this list, and to Fedora, having just installed Fedora Core 3 on a Compaq Presario desktop with an 800 MHz Celeron processor. I've been running Red Hat Linux 9.0 for a bit over a year, though, so I'm not a total Linux newbie (but I'm not far off).
The problem I'm having is that as soon as X is started, the GUI widgets don't work right. When I booted for the first time, I got the intro screens that prompted me to set the root password, define a non-admin user, set the monitor type, and so forth. Even at this stage, I noticed that the drop down menus weren't redrawing themselves correctly when I manipulated the scroll bars. Only the last visible item would change, until I moved the cursor over the rest of the list, whereupon it would update as well.
When I log on, bringing up either KDE or Gnome, I get similar but more difficult problems. My desktop icons are all invisible until I happen to float the cursor over them, and drop-down menus don't appear unless I float the cursor over an item, at which point that one item becomes visible. Application windows are also invisible until I float the cursor over the various widgets, and then only those widgets appear (like buttons, or the title bar, if I happen to find one of the window frame decorations). The contents of the window don't appear unless I create a second window, find its title bar, and then drag it across the first window, thus forcing it to redraw itself (meanwhile the second window remains invisible, which is an odd spectacle).
Has anyone ever seen this before, or have any suggestions on how to try and fix it?
BTW, I doubt this is a hardware problems, since this PC had Win2K on it when I got it, and then I briefly had SuSE Server installed on it, and both worked fine. I didn't think I'd need anything from the SuSE install (and I'd already wiped out Windows), so I just did a clean install of FC 3. My monitor is a generic 1024 X 1280 LCD panel model (labeled "Envision"), and I don't know the brand of video card, although I'll check that if it would help.
Any help would be appreciated. thanks, Bruce Elliott
