Unersolved issues with FC6?

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Nov 16 02:05:21 UTC 2006


Knute Johnson wrote:
> Thanks for the response Gordon.  Please see mine below.
> 
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> 3) I get vertical lines when I use the backspace or right arrow over 
>>> text.  It shows up in Firefox text boxes and text in the main display 
>>> window.  It doesn't happen when I backspace over text in Open Office 
>>> Writer.
>> It's probably a display driver bug.  You might be better off rolling 
>> back to FC5, if it had a reliable video driver.  What card?
> 
> NVidia Quadro NVS 285 - Dual port

... xorg driver, or binary from NVidia?

>>> 5) Dual head doesn't work but I don't think it has ever.
>> Single video card or two?
> 
> Single NVidia Quadro NVS 285

I'm pretty sure the second port only works when using the binary NVidia 
driver.

> I used the Sessions link at the bottom of the login screen.  It 
> doesn't matter if I set KDE as the default or single session.  When I 
> just tried it I got another applet error that I forgot to write down.

If you select KDE at the login screen, you get the Gnome panels when you 
log in?  I can't reproduce that on my system...





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