From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When I try to run Xconfigurator and test my settings the screen messes up and becomes quite useless in Textmode. I'm using S3 ViRGE /GX w. 2mb which is an on-board version on a Tulip Vision Line dt/233. I saw a simlilar problem reported using 7.0 (which I had installed previously) and tried downgrading XFree86 and modifying my XFreeConfig file as specified in a Gotcha. This didn't work for me. Now I've upgraded to RedHat 7.1, which has solved part of the problem. When installing 7.0 the installer messed up the screen too. This is *not* the case when I installed 7.1. But Gnome and Xconfigurator still doesn't work - allthough it's working better than before. Now, I suspect that my configuration is wrong somehow since the installer works without a glitch. But I havn't got the faintest idea were to look. I'm installing linux for the first time and I am a complete newbie, som I appologize if this is something I should be able to do. I'm not sure how I determine which packages etc. that was upgraded etc. Please help! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up. 2.startx OR 3.Xconfigurator and test. Actual Results: The screen is all garbage and when i return to textmode this is garbage too. Expected Results: The displayed without garbage. Additional info:
After a complete reinstall of 7.1 instead of an upgrade from 7.0->7.1 and using the *old* driverset instead of the proposed new version, the X and gnome works. I still think something is wrong with the new drivers in the newer version of the server, but this seems to work for me.