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progrock

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 33

Weird Video Behaviour

Hi all,
  I hope I've posted this in the right place, but I've got a pretty weird problem, so here's the explanation:  In short, I get weird pink lines on the screen and characters in web pages and on fluxbox menus will be randomly pink or red.  Here's an example:

Sometimes, if I scroll away or highlight it and then click away, the characters will be the right color.  I'm currently using fluxbox because KDE is unusable -  the whole desktop turns pink or shades thereof.  I thought that maybe my graphics card or cables were borked, but I loaded up the Kubuntu 8.10 live cd and pulled up the same web pages inside KDE and everything was fine.  No funny colors, no weird pink lines. - So this is probably a bad config file or something.  I've got an NVidia 7900gtx and I'm using both heads on it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Here's my xorg.conf for reference:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue Jan  6 10:03:55 PST 2009

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue Jan  6 10:03:02 PST 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Resolution" "200"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7900 GTX"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "TwinView" "True"
# Removed Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by progrock (2009-03-31 23:58:14)