On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 03:33, Caitrin Torres wrote: > I upgraded my laptop from stable with a few testing packages to all > testing via an accident with dselect last night. The next time I > booted, I realized that X had broken. Running startx results in a > half-inch flickering band on the left side of the screen, and nothing > at all on the rest of it. I have to use ctrl+alt+backspace to get > back to a prompt. Before the upgrade I was not having any problems > with X. > > I've never had X work less than perfectly before, so I haven't any > idea where to start troubleshooting. Any suggestions of things I > ought to try? > > It's a Dell Inspiron 5000, with an ATI Rage Mobility P card, using the > laptop's builtin screen only (no external monitor). Also, while I > generally use KDE, I tried starting Enlightenment instead and got the > same results. > > -- > Caitrin > caitrin@artemista.com Quick guess is that it sounds like mode line for the default resolution is wrong - can you try other resolutions and see if any of them work? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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