Good news Andy, let me just post it to debian-user so as to share it with the list.
Thanks. Thomas Dne 2002.09.02 15:48 napsal Andrew Zajac: > I have found a solution to the problem. > > I had tried reconfiguring X. > > I had tried recompiling my kernel several time without > any luck. > > I then updated Xfree86 to version 4.2 and it works > beautifully. Apparently, there is (was) a known bug > which blanks the screen when using various video > cards. > > Anyway, I am using the experimental debian version of > xfree4.2 which is a little slow since it contains a > lot of debugging code. I am going to reinstall it > from the binaries on the xfree website. I'll have to > purge the debian packages, though... > > I am optimistic that this will work very well. I had > run Mandrake Linux 8.3 which uses XF 4.2 as well, I > tried out Slackware 8.1 which uses the same version > and both were fine. I also tried another distribution > which did not use 4.2 (Peanut linux - xfree86 4.1) and > the same problem occurred. > > Anyway, good luck. > > BTW: My computer seemed to run faster using xf 4.2 on > slackware (compared to debian with xf 4.1) I have the > impression that XF 4.2 runs faster than 4.1... > > Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
