On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:54:09PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:44, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > As I keep telling my students you need to ask even it shows your > > ignorance. Maybe it is the early hour but I don't know how to try the > > 'vesa' X driver or even what the 'vesa' X driver is. I would like to > > know what it is if it potentially will solve our problem. > > Could you clarify? > > Yep. X is the graphical display system, it keeps its configuration > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > If you make a backup of that, then have a look in there, you'll see it is made > up of various stanzas which talk about your keyboard, mouse, monitor, display > adapter and "screens", which are the association of these other things into a > single monitor. > > You want to look for this: > > Section "Device" > ... > Driver "mydriver" > ... > EndSection > > mydriver is the name of your current X video driver. Comment out the old > Driver line with a # > > # Driver "mydriver" > > and add in the vesa driver instead > > Driver "vesa" > > underneath it. Then save the file and restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will do > it if you saved your stuff and are on VT7 (Ctrl-Alt-F7)). > > Now you should come up reasonably as before, but you are using a very boring, > 'safe' driver with no real accelleration. If the behaviours that you don't > like persist, now you can rule out the X display driver as the source. But > perhaps the behaviours will be gone, in which case you know it is likely > coming from your old X display driver, whatever that was. > > -Andy I could try this but the same behavior occurs on machines that have a wide variety of drivers being used (nvidea, intel, etc). For example my machine has a ATI Technologies Inc. R128 video card and uses the r128 driver. It is hard to believe all these drivers have the same bug. -- ======================================================================= I am the mother of all things, and all things should wear a sweater. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
