Re: What part of X causes major display problems?
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:13:00PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
| I have just upgraded X 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?
This sort of thing is usually caused by incorrect settings in the
XF86Config file, in my experiences. In particular check the
horizontal and vertical frequencies that are allowed and the modelines
you have.
Alternatively switch to the framebuffer and you don't have to worry
about that at all :-).
HTH,
-D
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