Need help: X GUI objects invisible

[Jim Cornette]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 08:50 pm, Bruce Elliott wrote:
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>>What I'm planing to do is to resinstall the
>>smallest version of SuSE Linux that I can, in dual-boot mode (I hope
>>that won't clobber anything in the Fedora install, aside from borrowing
>>some disk space), and then to see what its xorg.conf looks like.  X had
>>run fine under SuSE, I just got rid of it because it was only the Server
>>edition (from my workplace) and had no application software.
>>
>>I'll post anything useful that I learn.
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>>thanks for the help,
>>Bruce
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> Bruce:
> Rather than going through all of the hassle of installing and then 
> uninstalling SuSE, it would be a lot less work if you used a live-CD distro; 
> Knoppix is especially good at identifying and configuring hardware.
> -- cmg
> 

Also, the xorg.conf file is not the exact problem causing the error. The 
problem is with the xorg-x11 driver for the i810 video cards.

The only thing that I see is to add the
Option "NoAccel"
To the xorg.conf file, then get the xorg-x11 where the breakage was 
resolved/reduced for the 810 and 815 video chipset class.

Going through installing SUSE also to check the config file seems to be 
a lot of work, but I have resorted to some very out of the ordinary 
workarounds or detective methods also.

Jim

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