Darin Bailey wrote:
>
> My emacs editor is not working properly. I'm not sure if it didn't install
> correctly or the setting are just really tweaked! The pulldown menu's are
> not readable, where you would normally see the 'open' 'save' 'preferences'
> etc... you just see the outline of where everything is. it just shows a
> solid color instead. When I click the mouse in the editor window, the font
> and formatting completly goes "haywire" I guess you'd say.
> My question is which emacs packages or files should I reinstall? I'm new
> with RH, I recently installed 6.1. Do I first get rid of the ones that are
> currently installed then reinstall them, or just go ahead and reintall. I
> use the rpm function right? After it's installed, do I need to set it active
> somehow?
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Hi Darin,
I'm assuming that you are talking about emacs in an X session so ignore
what follows if this is not the case.
Are you using an SiS Video card??? You can add the following line to the
"Device" Section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file which ought to cure
the problem.
Option "no_bitblt"
This will allow emacs and terminal windows to display properly. However,
there is a penalty to pay. Some video acceleration will be lost and you
may find this awkward. You can change the colour depth to 8 and lose
some detail.
A more complete solution is to visit the Suse web site www.suse.de/en
and download a new Xserver for your card. These are written to
compliment the XFree86 package and replace your existing xsvga server.
The best thing to do for a Red Hat installation is to get the rpm
version and install that. Rename your existing Xserver which is probably
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and then create a symbolic link to your new
server as
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFcom_SiS /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
Change the XFcom_SiS name to the name of the xserver you installed. You
may need to make minor adjustments to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and
you ought to remove the "no_bitblt" option if you tried that.
Suse make Xservers for a few different "problem" cards, not just SiS.
Hope this works for you,
Steve
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