Suse 6.4 upgraded to XFree 6.4, problems now

[Karl Gutenberg <GlueSoft gmx de>]

Hello people,

first my congrats to the Helix people. They managed to fix my sound problems 
with Esound as reported earlier. The rate seems now to be set correctly. I 
still have the feel that it's not completely right, but I guess it's getting 
there....

What did cause a lot trouble is my update from Xfree < 4 to 4.0.1 as 
downloaded from the CVS. I used CVS download because there are new Matrox 
drivers in it.... maybe a mistake :-)

The symptoms were that the install overwrote my startx AND that when using 
the gdm to start it, all of a sudden, my windows are getting crippled now. 
The left, right and bottom borders, don't get drawn anymore.....

They are there, when i click at them, the window gets raised.... but I think 
the elements are not there, I cannot resize a window with them e.g.

This occured with my "example" user first, as it does with my "root" user, so 
user settings are out of the game.

I tried to change the WM from Sawmill to twm, same symptoms! Must be a Gnome 
problem though. KDE2 never showed the problem anyway....

I wonder if Gnome is having a problem of being installed for another X 
version than I have now. I mean, i use 2.4 kernel, Xfree 4 and stuff, more of 
a 7.0 distribution....

Should I try reinstall Gnome?

Yours, Karl