I received an offline message from Seven Filling detailing the same
problem with Accelerated X running on a Diamond Stealth 3d card with 4M
RAM configured for 1152x846 and 64K colors with a generic monitor. He
suggested toggling between X and console a couple of times to clear it
up. He said he was going to email a bug report to Xi; I suggested the
following:
> Hmmmm. Here are some points for consideration:
>
> 1) The problem doesn't manifest until Communicator is started.
>
> 2) We have the same problem with two different X servers and entirely
> different hardware.
>
> 3) We're running immature drivers for cards that are "newly" supported
> by our respective X-server makers.
>
> So what's the problem? Immature drivers (that can't deal with some
> feature of Communicator), or a bug in Communicator? If it's the former,
> we'll probably continue to suffer for awhile; if it's the latter, maybe
> it's time to upgrade to Communicator 5.0 and ask the open source
> community to deal with it. But how do we assign responsibility for the
> problem?
>
> I appreciate your response, and welcome you thoughts on the issue.
>
> Mike
Another possibility I didn't consider is a bug in Afterstep. I'll try
Communicator with another WM and report back. I suggested going to
C-5.0 and asking for assitance from the open source community because we
get results, even if it's the manufacturer's problem.
Are we the only two experiencing this one?
I also wrote to the list:
> Also, I downloaded rvplayer-5.0-2.i386.rpm.rhmask-5 from the directory
> /pub/redhat/updates/real/i386 on Red Hat's ftp server, but it won't
> install via RPM. RPM says it's not an RPM file, and running "file"
> against it says it's data. What to do? I'd check the errata at the web
> site if I could read it, but X gets all messed up when I run
> Communicator. Can't read squat. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
No response there at all. As I stated, I can't read the errata on the
RH web site. If someone has the answer to this one, I'd be indebted.
As always, TIA.
Mike
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