I think the hardware is fine, as Xfree86 3.3.6 works fine, and so does
Windows...I have heard from at least one other who has a Banshee card, and he
had no problems...
Doug
On Sunday 29 April 2001 22:56, you wrote:
> On Sunday 29 April 2001 22:45, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Diamond Monster Fusion Video card (VooDoo Banshee
> > chip) and a Phillips 107S monitor. I have tried getting
> > XFree86 4.0.3 to work in both Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
> > clean installs with the same results in both. Both the card
> > and the monitor are found correctly by the install. However,
> > when I try to startx, things get weird (using KDE). Hard to
> > explain exactly, but here goes: X starts, but everything is
> > extremely grainy, the background, icons, everything. The
> > cursor looks like a fuzzy rectangle. The K menu is about
> > 1/8" wide, and all icons in it (and on the desktop) are
> > unreadable. I use the cntrl-alt-backspace to get back to a
> > command prompt, and I think it does... but the screen is now
> > a jumble of many colors. Pressing alt+F2 through alt+F6
> > reveals that all terminals look the same way. But commands
> > are accepted... So, I use cntrl-alt-del to reboot.
> > I have tried Xconfigurator, and I have manually edited the
> > XF86Config file, and even tried the xfree86config (sp?)
> > tool, all to no avail. Thanks for any help!
>
> i have never heard of your problem. check your bios. make sure
> its set right. maybe u have some bad hardware ?
>
> > Douglas W Koobs MCSE
> > Network Engineer
> > Dimension Networks, Inc
-- Douglas W Koobs MCSE Network Engineer Dimension Networks, Inc
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