On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:05 -0400, fred smith wrote:
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And a third item for the list: After just rebooting a few times trying various tactics for solving the first problem above (without success, BTW) when I booted it last time the GUI desktop comes up with empty panels. The panels are there, there's just nothing visible on them. I can click on the panel in the spot where something ought to be, and it is there--the menus open,or whatever was supposed to happen, and they have visible text--it's just the panels that are blank.
I should note that I'm using "desktop effects" with an old nvidia card, in case that matters.
I can't recall the start of this, did you {un,re}install the nvidia driver? I use the one from rpmforge. Other folks reported the need to un/reinstall to get it to work right. I saw these before I upgraded, did it and all is good.
Be aware: the *97*beta driver is for a later model nvidia and won't work on the *96* series. You'll probably want to use the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-1.0.9631-1.nodist.rf.i386 from rpmforge if your card is fairly old.
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HTH