| Madhusudan Singh 2006-02-25, 5:52 pm |
| John wrote:
> In article < YPCdncAZZclK1mPenZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast
.com>, spammers-go-
> here@spam.invalid says...
> : Hi
> :
> : Did a bunch of updates on my Debian Etch system. Among others, KDE was
> : upgraded to 3.5. Now, when X starts up (tried both kdm and gdm), there
> : is a strange kind of translucency present - the mouse cursor is
> : invisible, and the text is visible, without the colors that distinguish
> : a window from the background. Nothing is readable. I am posting this
> : from a Knoppix live CD session.
> :
> : Logging into Gnome leads to one advantage - can at least see the
> : terminal, though any ncurses dependent stuff leads to the same problems.
> :
> : Any idea about what is wrong, and how do I fix it from a text only
> : runlevel ?
> :
> : Thanks.
> :
>
> I recommend editing your xorg.conf file to set the video adapter to
> "vesa" - selection #0 on the list of drivers. You know, narrow the
> problem down. :-)
Excellent suggestion !!
Changing to vesa worked. Now, this suggests that there is a problem with the
i810 support in the latest xorg drivers.
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