Re: Split-screen (this is not the 1/2 panel thread)

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: GMan <glbrock@provide.net>
To: GNOME List <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 1:24 AM
Subject: Split-screen (this is not the 1/2 panel thread)


> I must have been jinxed by the 1/2 panel thread here. I have a screen
> and a horizontally. It is a normal screen for about 2/3 then starts
> over. Everthing (apps, menus, etc.) are mirrrored in both. I tried
> putting setting s back to default, no go. Changing themes and wallpaper,
> nope. Logged out and logged in another account and tried KDE for
> entertainment. It does the same thing. Something in X land smells funny.
>
> I'm on SuSE 6.2 dist, dual-boot (Linux owns the ENTIRE 2nd drive),
> Gnome???, E .015 (I had set up for 1desktop)
> One more piece is that just before this happened I had a couple of
> Netscape sessions lock down and had to CTRL-ALT-BS to escape. The boot
> up after the splitscreen started, forced an fsck on my root partition.
>

This is an X problem. (I know nothing about SuSE's X config tools. You'll
have to edit XF86Config manually or with an X config tool.) I'm not sure why
this would have happened in the first place, but I don't see why XF86Config
could have been screwed up. Anyone else?

--Ben

PS
E0.16 is much nicer :-)