Have you tried a different video card? This sounds like my old HP machine and
its video problems to me.
X has been updated along with the Kernel and Gnome and KDE and libraries and
Qt plus other changes. Considering all the changes one should expect the
current releases to be rather buggie.
The only reason I can thank of for changing now from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0 or
RH 7.0 to 7.1 is that you have some problem that you are trying to solve that
requires one of the updated components - like the latest version of X.
Frank
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 11:27 am, you wrote:
> The exact difficulty is when the window manager is not running, for a
> moment between login and logout, normally a gray background should be
> displayed. In this case, there are several dark verticle bars across
> the screen. When the window manager is running, the black fonts are
> bolder where the verticle bars are located. Anyone have any insights?
>
> Smitty
>
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:03:16AM -0400, Norbert Cartagena wrote:
> > > > I don't know how you can debug it. I installed Mandrake 8 about two
> > > > weeks ago and it broke on me when I transferred home directory files.
> > > > There are too many bugs and a paucity of documentation on that
> > > > distribution for my purposes. I am using SuSE 7.1 and have found
> > > > only one bug in the Xserver.
> > > > Smitty
> > >
> > > Just wondering, can I ask what? I've been having some odd problems with
> > > it too and maybe they;re related (I thought it had only to do with my
> > > laptop/video card). Once in a while X just *poof* dies on me. Similar?
> >
> > Just a shot in the dark, but try turning off gpm and seeing if X still
> > randomly dies.
> >
> > Paul
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