X: never before seen display strangeness

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 10 23:12:08 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:30:29PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com>
> > Subject: Re: X: never before seen display strangeness
> > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:28 PM
> > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:24:13AM +0900, Slim Joe wrote:
> > > 2008/10/10, Dave Feustel
> > <dfeustel at mindspring.com>:
> > > > As of two or three days ago, Windows of programs
> > I kill disappear
> > > > from the screen, only to flash back upon the
> > screen for an
> > > > instant before disappearing for good. I've
> > never seen this
> > > > behavior in X before.
> > > 
> > > Hmm. This may be related to the problem I've been
> > having. What kernel
> > > are you using? I've experienced something like
> > this with Linux kernel
> > > 2.6.26 but not with 2.6.25. Maybe (wild, wild guess)
> > it's an
> > > incompatibility between the xserver and kernel.
> > 
> > What command tells me what kernel is being used?
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> Open up a terminal(konsole) type 
> $ uname -a
> $ uname -r
> 
> should give you which kernel you are running :)

Thanks. Hiere is the info:

 2/home/daf}uname -a
Linux c2.localhost.comcast.net 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20
03:45:00 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
 2/home/daf}uname -r
2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686
 2/home/daf}





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