Help please XFree86 (RH8.0 install) --> checkered display

Hi all,

I've just installed RedHat 8.0 and there's a problem with the XFree86 
setup.

Essentially the problem is:
- Checkered backgrounds for various windows (but not for all). It makes 
most of the apps such as OpenOffice basically unreadable. Gnome menu 
items are fine, but KDE are completely checkered except for the 
currently highlighted item.

When I had RH7.1 (and also after updating this with the latest rpm 
available for that distribution from rpmfind.net) I had a very similar 
problem which was fixed by downloading & installing 
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-38.i386.rpm and consequently running "Xconfigurator 
--kickstart" as root and then rebooting.

However this package (according to rpmfind.net anyway) is only available 
for the 7.3 distribution. I downloaded it anyway along with its 
dependency XFree86-compat-modules-3.3.6-44.i386.rpm and installed both 
(No problem there).

However Xconfigurator depends on newt-0.50 -- and it complains even 
though there's a newer version installed (newt-0.51) :-(

I've tried various monitor configurations using the "Gnome Menu > System 
Settings > Display" tool to no avail.

What can I do to set this all up properly? Thanks muchly...

Here's my details:

- The video card
(the output from SuperProbe from when I had 7.1 installed)...
root > SuperProbe
First video: Super-VGA
      Chipset: Cirrus CL-GD5430/40 (PCI Probed)
      Memory: 2048 Kbytes (Huge!)
      RAMDAC: Cirrus Logic Built-in 15/16/24-bit DAC
       (with 6-bit wide loopkup tables (or in 6-bit mode))

- Monitor:
Digital (PCXBV-YC)
Specs:
	38.10cm (15-inch, 14-inch max viewable non-glare, non-static)
	Active area: 28.45 x 21.34 cm (11.2 x 8.4 in)
	Video Signal: 0.7V p-p R, G, B color; separate Sync (+ve or -ve); 
75 ohm TTL, composite sync or sync on Green
	HScanRate: 30-60KHz
	VScanRate: 50-110Hz

Computer:
	AMD Athlon XP 1800+
	MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-7VAX1394


with regards,

--
Lachlan Deck
[email protected]



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