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I finaly got redhat on my computer. I have KDE installed... I thought everything was ok until i started up some programs. On gimp and firefox so far this hapends. It starts up but then my cursor turns pink and the rest of the screen turns pink that's not in the firefox window.
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Hey! Congrats for joining the light side!
Are you sure the issue is not with your graphics? Try getting XOrg instead of XFree86.
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um. What's XOrg. I've had a REALY hard time getting this going... The loader always said i have a corrupt file but after 3 days I put the KDE instead of GNOME and nothing but X and some editors and gimp... Do I have to reload. need sleep.....
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http://www.x.org/
Branched off XFree on source issues.
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ok. thanks. Why would it only turn pinkish when I run gimp and firefox? sorry for poor posted need sleep...
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System specs?
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um. It's old. Pentium 2 proccesor um like 180MB of RAM. Cdrom drive floppy drive... I'm not sure about anything else. I"ll check later.
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Onboard video, or is it a card?
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It's a card. Doesn't have an onboard video.
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Aha! Possibly you have bad card support! It sound like a video display problem to me.
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have you tried using just IE?
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Eheheh....

This is Linux he is talking about - no such thing as Internet Exploder.
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oh i am so stupid *laughs* i like linux :) windows is easier i think though *likes the linux games*
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Ok I got it running. I just undid what i spent all day doing... :o I got GNOME going and it does not do that any more... Still need some sleep *laughs*. I've been up all night since friday trying to get it running.
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