Was up all?

Well, I got a good one for youz today... I just installed mandrake 9.1 on my Toshiba Satellite 2400 notebook and the display is all messed up, everything looks good till X-widow starts, the background is usually all there but any menu or window i open is all black, i can only see the icons... I installed the os with the same settings that i used to use without problem on mandrake 9.0. My video card on this machine is a S3 SupperSavage/IXC 1179. Please help... I actually had to resort to logging into windows to write this question ...lol.

Later all,
Apolo.

You can go into your X config file and select some settings like 640x480 as well as 8 bit color depth.

usually /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Radeon VE"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

EndSection


Change your depth to 8 and put 640x480 the only 'Mode'. I would comment out the default config and create your own screen section so you dont mess up the original (like it matters, doesnt work anyways )

You could type the command XFdrake as root, and choose some very basic settings, as mentioned in the post above. Then see if it looks better after restarting X (Alt-E at the login screen starts X, usually).