Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)

[Trent Shipley]

Thanks for all the advice on getting an EZ-config tool for SAMBA.  I am
certain it will all come in quite useful.

However, the more immediate problem is getting the graphical environment to
work.

I am starting to wonder whether xinitrc might be out of synch with the
Xfree86 hardware configuration.   I think it is bringing up an SVGA entry
rather that a hardware specific set of monitor parameters.

Hmm.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Trent
> Shipley
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 6:52 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)
>
>
> Bad news:  Prior to the upgrade the Window Manager worked.  After the
> upgrade it comes up, properly displays a startup screen in GNOME or KDE,
> then proceeds to paint the whole screen black.  It scatters
> windows randomly
> all over the screen, and likes to loose its place -- like you would expect
> if the monitor were being over-driven.
>    So I re-ran Xconfigurator, and it named the Video-Card and
> Monitor to the
> letter from its database.  The test is great, the herringbone pattern is
> fine -- just like before.
>    Time to try 'startx' again.  Same thing.  It likes to paint the screen
> black, paint app-windows more than once, and tile patterns diagonally over
> the screen.  In KDE refreshing the screen pretty much works,
> except that the
> next action screws everything up all over again.