Bruce Elliott wrote:
> <Note: this is a reposting of a message I sent two days ago, but which
> never appeared in the digest. Perhaps I sent it too soon after I'd
> joined the list?>
I never saw it, either: oh well...
> 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.
>
<snip further problems>
>
> 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.
Yes, it will probably be necessary.
Take a look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and post the section that looks like
this (it's the Videocard* bit that identifies the section: much of the
rest will be different):
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
EndSection
Then, as root, run
/sbin/lspci -v
and report the section that starts with some numbers then "VGA
compatible controller".
Thanks,
James.
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