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kinghajj

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Registered: 2008-07-15

Posts: 35

KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

Most of these images came from Firefox, from a website called egotastic, though I didn't even have Firefox open when I took this. I can see a bit of Wikipedia at the bottom, too, and toward the top a letter from the graphic novel Watchmen.

Maybe this is another nVidia 8xxx/9xxx and KDE problem? I guess that the graphics card might hold old images in RAM. It's not really a problem, just an oddity.

Pinqvin

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Registered: 2008-05-24

Posts: 8

Re: KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

I'm using a 8800GT and have a similar problem. Although mine doesn't glitch like that. The background on mine is sort of twisted and full of green/red/etc pixels, sort of like what you have when your cards memory is starting to die.

Man, I really hope Nvidia solves this crap fast. Even the normal desktop animations like hilighting something or resizing windows are really god damn slow in KDE4.1 and it's driving me nuts.

pheon

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 91

Re: KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

I have a similiar "problem" (I don't really count this a problem because it occurs only when I shutdown my system and it does not have any impact on my productivity - it just looks ugly) on my x86_64 machine with a Nvidia GeForce 6200.
It is not as bad as yours, it just shows my wallpaper totally messed up.

On my other machine (Intel gfx and i686) the problem does not occur, hence I support your theory of another nvidia-problem.

Regards

Last edited by pheon (2008-07-31 11:59:02)

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milan

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Registered: 2007-03-20

Posts: 38

Re: KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

Good news is that Nvidia published new Linux driver yesterday, so hopefully this issues have been solved. We'll have to wait until new driver hits arch repo.

Cheers!

attila

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Registered: 2006-11-14

Posts: 293

Re: KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

Good news is that Nvidia published new Linux driver yesterday, so hopefully this issues have been solved.

Take a look at this thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 because if you have a newer nvida card you should try the beta versions. Perhaps it helps too if you take a look at the hints of the first page from this thread. Good Luck.

zergu

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From: Poland

Registered: 2005-10-10

Posts: 28

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Re: KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

Although mine doesn't glitch like that. The background on mine is sort of twisted and full of green/red/etc pixels, sort of like what you have when your cards memory is starting to die.

I've seen that on my Intel card so maybe it's qt/kde problem?

ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 464

Re: KDE 4 shutdown graphics glitches

try this with compiz/kwin on and see if it clears up. Also try compiz's login/logout effect.