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          Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,

> On Apr 1, 2013, at 18:32 , Chris Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> I was running SL6.1 OK but now the display no longer works - On boot
>> the top half of the display is readable but the bottom half is
>> rectangles of black and the screen.  The mouse won't move into the
>> lower half of the screen and produces a trail of black behind it.  If
>> I login the menus at the top are accessible but in half the width that
>> they should be.
>> I know that the monitor is OK as I use a KVM switch for another
>> computer - I have also connected the monitor directly to the PC with
>> no improvement.

> it could be another driver for older video chips that got broken with
> the recent X11 update. It happened to the nv driver as well, at least
> for NVS 280 cards.

> I'm working around it by using the vesa driver instead. In your case,
> removing the xorg.conf and the xorg-x11-drv-savage package should do.

> -- Stephan

>> I tried booting to run level 3 and used startx, same result - I've
>> attached the log file.
>> 
>> I also tried Xorg - configure but this doesn't work either, I get the
>> error "Number of created screens does not match the number of detected
>> devices. Configuration failed, server terminated with error (2)"- The
>> file it produces is attached.
>> 
>> I have also tried updating the system to 6.4 in the hope this might
>> fix it - it doesn't.
>> 
>> Any help gratefully received.
>> 
>> Chris

Stephan,

Removing the xorg-x11-drv-savage package worked.

Thanks very much for your help.

Chris