On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Wise, Jeremey wrote: [...] > First boot: Boot time was a tad slow but not completely unusual. Apparently > it does some kind of automatic logon of the user account you create. (don't > remember it asking me to turn that on). The real problem was that the screen > was split 3/4 of the way down and then "wrapped back onto itself". Kind of > hard to explain but it was like the 'bottom' of the screen was about 2inches > too high and then instead of truncating it (or where you have to 'pan' the > mouse up to see the rest) it just wrapped the missing top 2inches of the > monitor down onto the bottom. I ran the configurator and tried different > video monitors, cards, etc to no avail. Tried to find a 'bugzilla' for SuSE > but that does not seem to exist. Ended up emailing support@xxxxxxxx and go a > response back telling me to respond with the support number off my copy of > SuSE. (though the email did point to a site that had some archived help > fixes that I checked out.... nothing about this kind of issue sience 2.2v > kernel stuff). The situation would have been workable if not for the last > feature that Konquer's functionality as a web browser is abysmal and my > selection of Mozilla as an 'additional' option to be installed ended up with > a plethora of missing configuration files. This meant I had to reboot into > windows to look for and try fixes. > > I believe it is a XF86Config file issue. So long as the TFT is disabled the > system boots fine with a regular monitor. I copied the configuration file > from a Knoppix 3.3 (which works great) and after cleaning up some font > references X started but had the same issue.(I also did the same for a > Fedora XF86Config file which was the exact same 4.3.0 version). I believe this has already been fixed. Please try the latest 4.4 release candidate. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
