On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:04:06 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Im trying to get Wheezy with Gnome 3 in fallback mode to work on an old > machine which has a Silicon Motion SM712 LynxEM+ GPU. > > It starts up in fallback mode OK but the display isnt right. The theme > for buttons & scrollbars is just the generic GTK look i.e no theme at > all, (but the window border & close/max/minimise controls have the > correct Gnome 3 look), certain widgets on the desktop like the clock & > sound icon display as white rectangles and the terminal window, instead > of being a white background with black text displays as all black.
Is the same when you login with a fresh-new created user? > The xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion package is installed but I dont > know if its actually using it. How can I check? In principle I don't see it as a VGA driver problem :-? Anyway, you can check the driver in use from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and also when running "lspci -vv" (scroll down for the VGA card and look for the "kernel driver in use" line). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jsv8ji$q1u$2...@dough.gmane.org
