I'm forwarding this to all people I can think of who could help. I'm begging for help (any) to get rid of these problems, these are *all* the problems I seem to be having. Five problems may not seem much but the consequences are BIG. So I beg, please help.
I decided to install XFree86 4.0 on my laptop. X now runs *very* quickly and is very stable. However there several two irritating problems: (1) Suspending is now *lethal*. I never could suspend directly under xfree86 3.3.6 without first going to the text console and suspending there. However now even if I do that upon resuming X shows the state of it before I suspended but now with various black and yellow streaks down the screen. I have a Trident Cyber 9397 pci card in my laptop. The only way to get X to work is to kill it (<Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace>) and reload it. however the second problem involves a reboot all the time. Upon quitting X (or leaving it for a while) I get the error: kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for fe400000,40000 found kernel: mtrr: MTRR 1 not used kernel: mtrr: reg 1 not used this happens every time. (2) The computer now runs at about 1/6 the speed after the resume and the "beeping" it makes is now also reduced to about 1/6 the original speed. So beeping errors under the console last ages. I upgraded from 2.2.14 to 2.2.15 to see if that helped but no. The laptop becomes very unstable and sometimes I get kernel panics and things don't really run. Hence why I need a reset. I'm sure (somehow) that X is responsible as as soon as it was installed everything started going haywire. with 3.3.6 all was okay (except one or two things, see later). (3) Transparent icons and text do not work. This is damn irritating mainly as wmpinboard has the most nasty yellow background I have ever seen. Any ideas on how to fix this? This is more a cosmetic touch but would be nice to fix as its probably very easy too. I've searched the X source and documentation and been unable to find anything useful. In deja the DPMS (???) has been linked to the lack of transparent icons under X 4.0 as KDE apparently reports this. Now some problems that I was having before (4) Upon using sound (a Crystal CS4236) my entire keyboard mangles behaving as if I am holding down <Ctrl> all the time. This I can not get around and under the text console (all of them) the scroll lock key it on. However this doesn't freeze the console but instead when you press it you get a SysRq style "showTasks" appear. This doesn't disappear and contiued pressing of scroll lock repeat the showTasks command. I don't know why this happens however it happens 2 out of 3 times when using sound. The oly way to get rid of this is a reboot. On boot up the sound driver does report that ad1848: Interupt test failed (IRQ9) this may be related but sound still works (but only on IRQ 9). My Win95 sound settings also use my setting for linux. dma=1, dma2=0, io=0x530, irq=9. (5) Flipping from the text console to the graphics console (X) sometimes screws up the screen and crashes the kernel. The screen looks like its "burning in". However I haven't experienced this problem with X 4.0. This problem also occurs when I try to use graphics under the text console, regardless of my version of X. Please I beg help as now my laptop is iffy at best. Some of these problems I reported before and I NEVER got ANY help. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" "Hubenko" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Woody Linux Earthquake
