Re: [e-users] Raster problems

[Didier C. <did...@sp...>]

On 28 May 2003, Bryan Simmons wrote:

> OK, so I've been able to run KDE 3.1 or Gnome 2 for WEEKS with no errors
> like this:
> 
> When using Enlightenment 0.16 as my window manager, after 2 or 2.5 days
> the rastering gets HOSED.
> Everything shifts into seperate primary colors, like viewing a 3D comic
> without the 3D glasses.
> 
> Then, when I log out of E, even the rastering of the commandline is
> hosed.  A reboot is the only thing
> that fixes it.
> 
> I'm using Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.x) on an AMD-based system with a
> GeForce4 MX card.
> Like I said, K and Gnome work just fine for weeks on-end.  Why does E do
> this and how can I fix it??
> 

I'm also using NVIDIA but with a GeForce2 MX card. I'm using RH 9 kernel 
2.4x. I've no problems at all with the display in E. It's probably the 
drivers... Sorry to say that but Mandrake is known to have a lot of 
problems with drivers and other stuff too. 

I've friends who used the same hardware as mine and they had but with
Mandrake and they had lots of problems, seriously.  And they had to switch
OS. I never really liked Mandrake: The first time I installed it, it gave
me lots of error messages at startup and blew my laptop to pieces after a
while and my latop died after 3 days of installing Mandrake.

I had been running with RH for a long time without problems but decided to
try out Mandrake and it was really a bad experience! 

So watch out for your hardware! :-) Nothings wrong with E and I believe 
that it's not responsible for the problems you're facing right now.


regards,
Didier


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