On Wed, 10 May 2000, Heather wrote: > > MTRR support is a fairly new kernel option. You might have to recompile > a kernel to get it set. (anyone know if it was selected during the 2.2.15 > compile making kernel-image and pcmcia-modules?) > however it was working fine before the upgrade to X. It is regardless of what linux kernel version I am running. 2.2.14 used to work fine, I upgraded to X 4.0, problem begins so I upgrade kernel to 2.2.15 and still the problem is present :(
> > (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). > > Eek. Something about registers, I'm guessing. > what registers? The ones in the CPU? > > (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. > > I'd consider this annoying enough to call X not working, if it were me. > I can live with it. Apparently I may need to get the DGA module loaded. However I have tried and it won't load :( Or I think it won't. I tried a xdpyinfo but it says it hasn't loaded. > That creepy palette-shift melting effect, or ugly crazy lines? I think that > one means horiz sync is being overflowed, the other, the vertical, but I > don't know which one is which... > > I have in the past usually resorted to a long session of forcing X to use > a specific modeline (expecting to have to bail via ^alt-backsp or Hard Power > many times) until I get one that looks kinda okay, even if imperfect. Then > I go nuts with xvidtune. > > In a few cases I've found a laptop simply not caring about those so long as > its dotclock is happy. > > Did you ever try framebuffer support, and if so, did it work, complain, > suffer the same tiny disasters...? > Thats worth trying.....I'll give it a go. > I know the above has a lot less direct answer than I usually offer, but > I figured I'd give it a shot. > Its better someone actually gave hints (or even said they don't have a clue on one or two things) rather than staying silent. thanks lots Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" "Hubenko" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Woody Linux Earthquake
