(Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general) I have an old pentium2 which handled my previous 17" flat panel monitor fine; but when it went dead, this machine couldn't cope with the 19" replacement -- despite the fact that I had chosen the replacement to be a monitor in the list Main Menu > Desktop > System Settings > Display > Hardware > Configure. (It's a Viewsonic VG910b; the old one was a BenQ FP767). Its worst trouble was that the display would go so weirdly grainy under CrossOverOffice 5.0.1 (CXO), whenever I tried to install a Windows app, that it became unusable. Someone suggested that maybe its videocard, an ATI 3D RageII+ 215GTB, might be inadequate. I finally uninstalled CXO, reconfigured the machine to use its own keyboard, mouse, and old monitor (a Viewsonic E641), and re-installed CXO. But the problem is worse instead of better. It still goes weird in the same way, but earlier in the attempt -- I used not to be able to use GPS/topo-map software I had installed; now I can't even install it. Now I learn (on comp.mail.pine) that there seems to be a buglet in pico -- the only editor I know. For editing config files, I normally use pico -w; but with pico 4.10 that may or may not be any different from plain pico. So now it looks like the problem may be that I've spoiled my /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- which I've edited the bejeezes out of, trying to hit a configuration that would work -- in some way that I don't see. Anybody know a way to diagnose for sure whether the trouble is in the videocard or the xorg.conf?? Or a place I could copy a known good xorg.conf for the Viewsonic VG910b with a p2 and a RageII+? I have another newer machine that does fine with it and its own nvidia nv18; I've tried copying its xorg.conf to the p2, but that just breaks my X11 entirely! :-( -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert FC4; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.51, Firefox 1.0.7, Epiphany 1.6.5 Remember I have little idea what I am talking about.
