[NTLUG:Discuss] video problems

[chris@chrisbaker.net]

I'm having a small problem with GNOME. I'm using RedHat 7.3. On 
the left side of the screen, I am getting some funny distortion on the 
screen. When I boot up and take down X, everything is fine.

I am using an ATI video card with Mach 64 chip set, I think. The 
problem has been somewhat intermittent. Monitor is a Gateway 
EV500, and it had been working fine. It also works fine during 
startup and shutdown.

It must be something in the setup that I'm doing here.

Incidentally, the system seems rather slow to being with, especially 
the GNOME RPM. Programs start up very slowly, too. It's a Pentium 
200 with 64MB of RAM. I always thought the main reason for using 
Linux is that it works on old systems, but this has been somewhat 
disappointing.

Chris