Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 09:32:55 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: "Marc Wandschneider" <marcw@lanfear.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does KDE care what graphics card I use? Message-ID: <00021909353801.02939@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <000001bf7ab0$9fcb0b20$0300000a@katana> References: <000001bf7ab0$9fcb0b20$0300000a@katana>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > moo! > so, I used to run KDE 1.1.2 under XFree86 3.3.5 on a FreeBSD 3.3 system. I > recently switched the graphics card from an ATI XPERT@WORK graphics card to > a Creative Labs 3D Graphics Blaster TNT2. I also upgraded the CPU to a > 750MHz athlon. > > Now, XFree86 runs fine, and twm and xterms are kinky happy, but KDE is just > cranky as hell -- buttons don't paint at all, clipping is pretty much a > wreck -- menus leave turds all over the place. Upgrading to XFree86 3.3.6 > didn't help at all ... > > Does anybody have any idea why this would all suddenly be screwed up? I'd > really rather not have to recompile and reinstall KDE (and I'm not even sure > that would work ....) > > Any thoughts would be appreciated!!! > > > thanks, > marc > Not sure why that would be. Just to reassure you, I am using a RIVA TNT2 on XFree86 3.3.6 and KDE 1.1.2 and it works just fine. Are you using the SVGA driver? -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?00021909353801.02939>