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Re: not prettey! Display problem



Le Monday 08 October 2007 21:00:17 Sam Leon, vous avez écrit :
> andy wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> when I start a KDE-Session I get several flashing pixels on the upper
> >> edge of my display, that leave holes in windows that are dragged
> >> accross them (see picture with holes in the blue margin of the konsole
> >> window).
> >>
> >> When I switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and back the problem
> >> dissapears.  Any clues as to where to problem could lie?
> >>
> >> I have kde 2.5.7.  My xorg packages and conf are listed below.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any suggestions,
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> -----------
> >
> > I'm no expert, but the last time I saw this kind of thing was when my
> > partner's graphics card was beginning to die on her. Can you test it on
> > any other WM/DE?
> >
> > A
>
> I was going to say the same.  Every time I have seen display corruption
> on the desktop it has been because of either a video card going bad or
> corrupt drivers.  Also an overheating card might do the same.
>
> Sam

For me, it's the actual nvidia drivers, not really good with the new xorg.
If I switch to a terminal VT (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and switch back to the graphical VT 
(Ctrl-Alt-F7), these artefacts disapear.

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