Re: Display glitch using new Linux on old Laptop

[paul womack <pwomack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

paul womack wrote:
> I recently updated (mad fool) my (old) HP Omnibook 4150 to
> Mandrake 2006.
>
> I cannot get the display to "be sensible".
>
> For example, this is a snapshot of the gimp tool panel
> after start up.
>
> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/bugbear33/broken_display.png
>
> The tool icons are stacked up "wrong".

I eventually got the display to appear
sensible, but only by backing all the way
down to "VGA" driver at 1024x768, 256 colours.

This is *not* a solution!!

  BugBear
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