Re: Need help: X GUI objects invisible

Sorry if I'm not replying correctly ... I'm using the digest form of the list, and I can't seem to reply to individual messages, so I edited the digest version. (I'll switch "Digest Mode" off in the future.)

Anyway, here is the Video section of my xorg.conf file:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Videocard0"
   Driver      "i810"
   VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
   BoardName   "Intel 810"
EndSection

And here is the controller part of the lspci output:

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b165
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

I hope that is useful. What I'm planing to do is to resinstall the smallest version of SuSE Linux that I can, in dual-boot mode (I hope that won't clobber anything in the Fedora install, aside from borrowing some disk space), and then to see what its xorg.conf looks like. X had run fine under SuSE, I just got rid of it because it was only the Server edition (from my workplace) and had no application software.

I'll post anything useful that I learn.

thanks for the help,
Bruce

James Wilkinson wrote:

Bruce Elliott wrote:

<snip>

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>

<snip> 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.