[CLUE-Tech] xquestion

[Matt Gushee]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:49:17PM -0000, mikeegee at postey.com wrote:

> The installation went well, and I am able to boot into the graphical 
> interface, however there is a half inch white band extending across 
> my screen about one inch from the top.  Also, the pointer needs to be 
> around 1.5 inches below anything I want to click on.
> 
> I booted into safe mode and toyed around with the XG86Config file, 
> and am able to boot safe, login, then xinit with no problem.  The 
> screen works perfectly and displays at 1024x768.
> 
> How can I get the regular boot to work properly?  Can I use the same 
> XF86Config file I am using in safe mode?  How would I go about this?

Are you using KDE? If so, you probably have kdm (KDE display manager)
running the graphical login sessions. kdm has its own configuration
mechanism, separate from the normal XFree86 stuff. Unfortunately I
haven't used KDE lately, so I can't remember exactly how to tweak that.

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