Need help: X GUI objects invisible

[Bruce Elliott]

Sorry if I'm not replying correctly ... I'm using the digest form of the 
list, and I can't seem to reply to individual messages, so I edited the 
digest version.  (I'll switch "Digest Mode" off in the future.)

Anyway, here is the Video section of my xorg.conf file:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "i810"
    VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
    BoardName   "Intel 810"
EndSection

And here is the controller part of the lspci output:

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC 
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
    Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b165
    Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
    Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
    Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
    Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

I hope that is useful.  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.

thanks for the help,
Bruce

James Wilkinson wrote:

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>Bruce Elliott wrote:
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>>The problem I'm having is that as soon as X is started, the GUI widgets 
>>don't work right.  When I booted for the first time, I got the intro 
>>screens that prompted me to set the root password, define a non-admin 
>>user, set the monitor type, and so forth.  Even at this stage, I noticed 
>>that the drop down menus weren't redrawing themselves correctly when I 
>>manipulated the scroll bars.  Only the last visible item would change, 
>>until I moved the cursor over the rest of the list, whereupon it would 
>>update as well.
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><snip further problems>
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>><snip>  My monitor is a generic 1024 X 1280 LCD panel model 
>>(labeled "Envision"), and I don't know the brand of video card, although 
>>I'll check that if it would help.
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>Yes, it will probably be necessary.
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>Take a look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and post the section that looks like
>this (it's the Videocard* bit that identifies the section: much of the
>rest will be different):
>
>Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Driver      "nv"
>        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
>EndSection
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>Then, as root, run
>/sbin/lspci -v
>and report the section that starts with some numbers then "VGA
>compatible controller".
>
>Thanks,
>
>James.
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