X: never before seen display strangeness

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: X: never before seen display strangeness
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:28 PM
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:24:13AM +0900, Slim Joe wrote:
> > 2008/10/10, Dave Feustel
> <dfeustel at mindspring.com>:
> > > As of two or three days ago, Windows of programs
> I kill disappear
> > > from the screen, only to flash back upon the
> screen for an
> > > instant before disappearing for good. I've
> never seen this
> > > behavior in X before.
> > 
> > Hmm. This may be related to the problem I've been
> having. What kernel
> > are you using? I've experienced something like
> this with Linux kernel
> > 2.6.26 but not with 2.6.25. Maybe (wild, wild guess)
> it's an
> > incompatibility between the xserver and kernel.
> 
> What command tells me what kernel is being used?
> 
> -- 

Open up a terminal(konsole) type 
$ uname -a
$ uname -r

should give you which kernel you are running :)

Regards,

Antonio 

[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27-1.fc10.i686
[olivares at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 9.92 (Rawhide)