[plug] Problems with display in Gnome

[Jason :)]

I had a similar problem with Mandrake 7.1, so I'm not sure if it applies...

The way I fixed it was simply turning down the screen refresh rate on
XFree86. I don't know what it was that caused it, but it was like X didnt
like my screen settings and was doing strange things. Turning down the
refresh rate fixed it...somehow...   :)



-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Gherardi [mailto:gherardi at ark.cs.curtin.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2000 6:01 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Problems with display in Gnome


redhat 6.1
kernel 2.2.12-20

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Jason :) wrote:

> what distro?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Gherardi [mailto:gherardi at ark.cs.curtin.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2000 5:49 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Problems with display in Gnome
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> My box looks to be very sick.
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> Many GUI's do strange things, including(but not exclusive too) turning my
> mouse pointer into a largish square and fonts being displayed as blocks.
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> I'm a linux newbie and haven't an idea where to start.
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> I first noticed the problem when trying to configure my printer and i
> couldn't read the error messages. The latest one was trying to install
> Eterm (configure ; make ; make install) which looked like it was going to
> work until i moved my mouse over the window.
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> Thanks
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> Carl Gherardi
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