jeffr at odeon.net wrote: > > Heya folks, I've got a NEC Versa SX notebook (P-II, 366 MHz, 64 megs ram, > 4 gig hard drive, Trident 9388 video with 2 megs ram). I was trying to > put Mandrake 7.2 on it (which includes XFree86 4.0.1). The install runs > fine, it properly detects the video chipset, and when X starts I get a > nifty penguin background, but none of the windows work (they are all > transparent, just showing the outline of the windows but none of the text > or color/shading that should normally be in the window). This happens at > all resolutions and depths that I've tried (from 8bpp at 640x480 through > 16bpp at 1024x768). Going back down to XFree86 3.3.6 works fine. I also > tried XFree86 4.0.2, but encountered the same problem as with XFree86 > 4.0.1. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, Pity it's not a desktop box. Then you could throw away the Trident, which is a constant source of configuration problems. However, there are lots of entries for NEC Versas on the Linux Laptop Volunteers database. Search here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/volunteer.html. Someone there should be able to pass you a working XF86Config file or otherwise fix you up. Good luck, -- Lan Barnes lanbarnes at earthlink.net Icon Consulting, Inc 858-273-6677 Key fingerprint = 57D6 C219 140A A81E 26C6 8138 0E62 7F4A 2659 7389 Tear down the terriers and bariffs - George W. Bush