on Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:36:50PM -0400, Carl Fink insinuated: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:12:41PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > a friend's analysis is that something's wonky with my video > > driver, such that when this happens, it will spew its output to > > the screen and then stop corresponding with it. this is really > > weird. > > Driver, or the video card itself might be defective. > > Y'know, I'm not an expert on this particular issue, but even *I* can > tell that people will need to know what video card and driver and > version of X and version of GTK and GNOME libraries you're using.
okay, right. forgot. sorry.
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.3-1
ii libgtk2.0-comm 2.4.3-1
ii libgtk2.0-dev 2.4.3-1
ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-16woody3
not sure about the gnome libraries -- `dpkg --get-selections | grep
gnome` turns up a lot of libraries, ad i'm not sure which are
relevant:
libgnome-vfs-common install
libgnome-vfs0 install
libgnome2-0 deinstall
libgnome2-common deinstall
libgnome32 install
libgnomecanvas2-0 deinstall
libgnomecanvas2-common install
libgnomecups1.0-1 install
libgnomecupsui1.0-1 deinstall
libgnomeprint-bin install
libgnomeprint-data install
libgnomeprint15 install
libgnomeprint2.2-0 install
libgnomeprint2.2-data install
libgnomeprintui2.2-0 deinstall
libgnomeprintui2.2-common install
libgnomesupport0 install
libgnomeui-0 deinstall
libgnomeui-common install
libgnomeui32 install
libgnomevfs2-0 deinstall
libgnomevfs2-common deinstall
xscreensaver-gnome install
my video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro TF (prog-if 00
[VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0408
Flags: stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at ff9fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
and i'm using the r128 driver.
Not sure if this is relevant, but in order to get this to work at all,
i have to add the line 'Chipset "ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP)"' to my Device
section for the montior in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. without that
line, it won't work, and i have to add it every time i use
dpkg-reconfigure on the xserver-xfree86 package. (there's probably
some way to put that line (and just that line) outside the section
handled by debconf, but i don't know how.)
thanks again,
</nori>
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