What part of XFree86 causes major display problems?
I have just upgraded XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the
upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen
consisted of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines
were 1 pixel in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black
horizontal lines running across it. Only the highlighted edges of the login
box appeared. No mouse cursor or text is visible on the screen. This
continued after rebooting, but the colours of the lines sometimes changes
after rebooting.
When Ctrl+Alt+Bksp is pushed, I see tty1 for a moment, the screen goes
black, then, a few seconds later, the screen goes back the way it was. It is
possible to login and out when the screen is like this, the cursor is
visible as 2 short horizontal lines with a width of 1 pixel.
How can I find out what part of X is causing this problem. All of the bug
reports of similar problems that I have seen and checked are at least half a
year old, and all say that it was fixed, and these are in older package
versions than mine.
Thanks for any help,
Seneca
seneca@slemish.com
ps. If this message was received earlier, please tell me. From my end it
looks like it was sent directly to the windoze equivalent of /dev/null.
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