Re: not prettey! Display problem
On Saturday 13 October 2007, Chris wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:57:36PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> > > oh.... I'm using an ati driver. It happens in XFCE too, not just KDE.
> > >
> > > Say, doesn't that suggest that its not the hardware or even the
> > > driver??
> >
> > nope. It suggests its not in some layer higher up than xorg. So it
> > could be in xorg or its drivers or below (hardware).
> >
> > try booting a live-cd with (hopefully) a differnt version of xorg and
> > see what happens. If the problem persists, then its likely hardware,
> > because the live-cd will almost surely eliminate *all* the other
> > variables (kernel, xorg version, wm version etc).
> >
> > A
>
> very good idea, I'll try that!
>
> C
>
> --
> C. Hurschler
No problems with a boot from a live CD.
I noticed that it already appeared in kdm on boot, i.e. before logging into a
desktop. I then installed gdm, upon which the problem dissapeared, even
after a dpkg-reconfigure kdm back to kdm.....
I'm just glad it's gone!
Chris
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C. Hurschler
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