[Comm-en] Re: Community-en Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1

[D&J Bouley]

Hello, Mike.

Thank you very much for your helpful reply.  That was the problem
exactly.  I simply installed Kompakt ;)  2.3 and that solved the problem
for us.  Now, our new Linux user is quite happy to be part of the
community.

I'm sorry that I did not reply sooner, but I was out of town.

Best regards,
David.

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> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 08:34:11 -0600
> From: D&J Bouley <djbouley at shaw.ca>
> Subject: [Comm-en] HP Pavilion Monitor Problems
> To: ALT Linux Community <community-en at altlinux.org>
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> Greetings, everyone!
> 
> I'm trying to help a friend move into the world of Linux.  I have
> installed Junior 2.2 on his HP brand PC, however, we're having problems
> with his monitor's (HP Pavilion Mx70) refresh rate.  Seems as though,
> withing certain windows in KDE characters and graphics go missing. 
> Switching from one virtual desktop and back "refreshes" the screen and
> everything is visible again (most of the time).
> 
> Anyone here know how to fix this problem?  We've selected all of the
> appropriate options under the ALT Control Center for monitor and
> graphics card settings, but the refresh rate just doesn't work properly.
> 
> Is there a known hardware compatibility problem with HP Pavilion's Mx70
> and Linux?  Is it something that I've overlooked?
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> David.
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> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:36:24 +0200
> From: Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua>
> Subject: Re: [Comm-en] HP Pavilion Monitor Problems
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> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:34:11AM -0600, D&J Bouley wrote:
> > I'm trying to help a friend move into the world of Linux.  I
> > have installed Junior 2.2 on his HP brand PC, however, we're
> > having problems with his monitor's (HP Pavilion Mx70) refresh
> > rate.  Seems as though, withing certain windows in KDE
> > characters and graphics go missing.  Switching from one virtual
> > desktop and back "refreshes" the screen and everything is
> > visible again (most of the time).
> 
> If it's i845-based system, then it's not monitor but that
> particular version of XFree86 (4.2.1.1) which got specific
> glitch.
> 
> The solution is to either downgrade to 4.2.1 or upgrade to 4.3.0;
> I have spare set of 4.2.1-alt4 packages which are known good
> regarding that particular bug, and there's "Shrek's backport
> collection" having XFree86-4.3.0 among other goodies here:
> 
> ftp://212.13.100.3/pub/shrek/ALTLinux/master22/RPMS.master/
> 
> > Anyone here know how to fix this problem?  We've selected all
> > of the appropriate options under the ALT Control Center for
> > monitor and graphics card settings, but the refresh rate just
> > doesn't work properly.
> 
> It just isn't RR.  Frankly, it's a lapse that XFree86 build with
> quite exposed problem (manifesting itself on a widespread video
> target) went into ALx2.2 :(  but things got better since then, so
> there's hope that audio/video-related problems are much more rare
> in ALT products now.
> 
> In fact, you can just try Compact to see -- there's a fresh
> snapshot at ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/people/darkstar/iso, and
> its buglist at http://bugzilla.altlinux.ru/show_bug.cgi?id=3005
> seems to be getting shorter with each snapshot so hopefully the
> release is closing in.
> 
> We'll be testing it tomorrow here in Kiev, if most things are OK
> then freshmeat/distrowatch announce will follow as 2004011x were
> quite comfortable to us already.
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