After upgrading my Celeron 466Mhz, 128Mb Ram, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI machine to redhat 6.2 and adding my ATI Rage 128 card I have been having weird video problems. One problem is that windows just seem to disappear with no appearent reason why (e.g. no core dump or anything). The other problem is that text does not always print where it is supposed to (e.g. when printing inside a Xwindow it sometimes ends up on the desktop or in another window instead). This is driving me nuts as I telecommute and the redhat box is my main communication mechanizm to my Unix box at work. I have not upgraded the kernel to the latest release as this box does not normally have much of a CPU load on it as it is just used to display windows from my Unix box at work. Any help would be appreciated. You can contact me at either of 2 email addresses: wolfland (personal email) or bbogert (work email). Thanks in advance, Brett Bogert (919) 732-5032 P.S. Keep up the good work.. RedHat ROCKS !!!
*** Bug 10656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have the following configuration and have the same problem. ASUS k7v, 800MHZ AMD, ATI 128, Adaptec SCSI.
I am seeing this problem too. It goes away if I add the option "noaccel" in the Device section of the XF86Config file, but the slowdown when I do that is quite noticable when I drag xterms around.
I have the same problem. noaccel does work but the slowdown is unbearable. It finally made me upgrade XF86. I had 3.3.6-20. after upgrade to 4.0.3 the problem goes away!! But the upgrade is no walk in the park. mainly because 4.0.x XF86Config use quite a few different term and format from the 3.3.x and the XF86Config generated by the 4.0.3 utility can't be used directly
Have you tried XFree86-3.3.6-22? Does it work for you?
Please upgrade to the latest release of Red Hat Linux 7.1. The problem is solved in XFree86 4.0.3.