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From: csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton)
Subject: Newly installed, some problems
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Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:38:44 GMT
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Hi there,

I've just installed 2.0.5-RELEASE from CDROM, and am having a few problems.

First, with X. I have a Cirrus Logic 5429 based VGA board, but I have to use
the no_bitblt option, or I get problems drawing windows. The contents of the
window is not correctly aligned with the left hand border - there is the
border, a gab of about 8 pixels where you can see through the window, then
the contents of the window are drawn. There are no problems with the
righhand side of the window.

The next problem is with menus. With programs like xpaint, xman etc, I can
click on the menu gadget/button, the menu will appear, but I can't select
anything. Similarly, I can't select any buttons on ghostview or zircon at
all.

Finally, I seem to be having problems with SLIP. I can connect to my ISP
just fine, I slattach and add a default route, and I can ping other machines
on the net just fine. However, the connection is intolerably slow. For
instance, if I telnet to the news server at the other end of the wire, I get
the connected to message, and then nothing.

Windows 95's TCP/IP works fine though, so I must be doing something wrong.

System:
AMD 486DX4 @ 120 MHz with 256K L2 cache
12 MB RAM, 850 MB Western Digital Caviar 
Cirrus Logic 5429 OEM graphics card with 1 MB RAM. (VLB)
VLB I/O card with 8250 UARTs :(

Any help appreciated!
--
Colin Dalton 
Mail: csdalton@alf2.tcd.ie - Web: http://alf2.tcd.ie/~csdalton/ - IRC: csd
Where mathematics are true, they do not refer to reality; where they refer
to reality, they are not true. 			- Albert Einstein.