[ale] Peculiarities

[Wandered Inn]

Michael B Golden wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
>         I've been experiencing a two recurrent problems with my Mandrake
> 7.1 install and then had another problem which just started today.
> 
> Major Recurrent Problem:
>         If I switch back to X or from X (to a virtual terminal),
> sometimes the screen will black out. The system still accepts input, but
> will not display any output. Trying to switch to another VT does not help
> at all. At that point, the only thing I could think to do is
> Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get a safe shutdown, but I lose all of my work. This
> is happeneing quite often and is quite annoying. I previously had RH5.2
> on the system, which never did this. If it matters, the video card is an
> SiS 6326 AGP with 8M Video RAM, but X will only use 4 because of
> limitations to the chipset.

Not necessarily a solution, but have you tried ctrl-alt-[-+], that is
changing to a different desktop resolution to see if you get your screen
back?


> Small Recurrent Problem:
>         When I did the install of Mandrake 7.1 to a friend's computer,
> Netscape worked correctly. On my computer, ever since I installed it,
> Netscape has been grayscale. All of netscape's buttons and image
> placeholders are in grayscale. It renders colors in the page correctly,
> but all of the internal netscape stuff has no colors. I have tried
> running it with just X and netscape (No windowmanager) to see if all
> colors were allocated, but it still had no color. I can deal with this as
> long as my new problem (above) is resolved, but it is kind of annoying.
> Running Mozilla, the colors work right. (But the linux version of mozilla
> seems a lot more unstable than the windows version)

Problems are known to exist with Netscape when running 24bpp, is this
your situation??

> 
> I could not find an errata or other documentaion to help me with any of
> these. If anybody knows of any that solve these problems or has a
> solution of their own, please email.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help I can get,
> Michael Golden
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