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I had a generally similar problem with one of two machines I have here,
one was a Cyrix 686 @ 134 megs with a Cirrus Video Card, and the other
is a Pentium 2 @ 350 Mhz with an S-3 Video Card. This latter machine was
the problem child. I loaded RH-6 into both machines, and by default, Gnome/Enlightenment
is the X server. It was so bad that I could not even begin to describe
the peculiar and erratic display behaviour, and nobody was likely to be
interested anyhow.
<p>I eventually swapped over the Video Cards so the the Cyrix 686 now has
the S-3 card, and the Pentium 2 has the Cirrus Logic Card. Both machines
seem to be happy with this situation. John Summerfield's response
to your problem seems to confirm that there is some kind of problem with
S-3 Video Cards, and I took a hint from a previous comment from that source
and this prompted me to swap the Video cards about. It should however
be bourne in mind that no two hardware situations are ever identical.
<p>I hope this is of some assistance, and wish you the best of luck,
<p>Regards, Len Bird
<p>Tom Baric wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <font size=-1>Hi,</font> <font size=-1>My
Linux Redhat 6 is giving me a bit of grief and I was hoping a PLUG guru
may be able to offer some advice to a new Linux user???</font> <font size=-1>When
I bring up gdm and click on either backslash or /var the gdm window starts
to flicker and freezes the session, so that the only way out is ctl-alt-bkspc
to the gnome log in screen. Certain applications such as minicom and extace
will only stay on screen for a second or two and disappear. When I go to
add certain applets to my panel such as ones with graphical components
(ie: wanda) my entire panel disappears completely from my desktop environment.</font> <font size=-1>I've
reconfigured X11 so many times and in so many ways I suspect I may have
a bug in the system. In particular I've concentrated on XF86Configs monitor
and graphics device sections. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
I don't suppose a simple way exists to understand the "core" dumped in
my gdm?</font> <font size=-1>
tks</font><font size=-1>
Tom....</font></blockquote>
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