Please help. Im having a problem with my windows becoming see through during a period of time where the system is on for a while. I am running Red hat 9 with gnome right now and nautilus. Please help. It seems like it could be a hardware problem, possibly because I have a voodoo 3. The screens turn see through, you can see font on the screen but no actual widgets or components. I have come to a conclusion that it might not be repainting, because all the windows blend into one and make a huge mess. When you drag windows and programs, they leave trails. Its like a common day on windows, the screen fucks and the screen doesnt get cleared. Or java when you dont repaint the screen and keep painting. Something like that. Please help.

Use: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
it kills X
you may have to type startx to restart X and please refrain from using the word "fuck" as many people find it obscene. Remember, Its nice to be nice

-Joey

And Joey.Dale, Please don't put your "PISS ASS" in HUGHE letters on your website. Some people might find it offencive.

Sounds ugly. Voodoo cards are a bit tricky to configure in Linux, but they usually end up working better than their ATI counterparts.

The voodoo drivers/modules might mess up 3d-acceleration (as in video games), but should not mess up desktop rendering as you have described.

Try using a desktop/window-manager other than Gnome and see if it works; this could be a problem in Gnome rather than in Xfree or the kernel.

hey, thanks a lot for your reply, someone actually helped me with it a while ago, I guess I needed to use the vesa drivers on redhat, and that fixed it right up. I love gnome. Also joey, I love the word fuck, and I don't see it as being obscene. Thank you.

'my bad. I should pay more attention to the posting dates on these forums!

Are you able to get 3d-acceleration with the generic vesa drivers? i.e. is tuxracer extremely slow?

tuxracer is amazingly slow and all the other 3d games are terribly slow. Anyway to fix this? Now, on fedora, I can't find a way to choose the exact driver. I could in rh 9... thanks

The 3d games are slow because the vesa driver doesn't take advantage of the 3d acceleration provided by your video card. The only way I know of to fix this is to get the driver for your video card working.

I don't have any experience with the Fedora core; sorry I can't help you there.

Voodoo cards are a bit tricky to configure, but they tend to have mucb better support for Linux than ATI's chipsets. So don't give up! Google around for a howto that deals with your specific video card.

It does not say that www.deooge.com (anymore) and please add something useful to the thread then nag