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Phill

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Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 2

blue lines running down screen after leaving X-windows

Hi,

Sorry for my first post to be a question, but I'm running into trouble with X at the moment. I am running gnome (although gnome-session won't immediately load for me so I have to go in via gdm or get an xterm up from the default startx and load gnome that way, but that's not a big deal)  my main problem is when I leave X windows I get a rather broken display, a big fat font rather than the previous nice terminal font and more worryingly lots of evenly spaced thin blue lines running down my screen.

I am guessing I have done something wrong with xorg.conf or nvidia driver but I'm not entirely sure what. I used pacman -S nvidia, and have a geforce Go 6150 graphics card. Any advice that you can give would be much appreciated.

My xorg.conf   http://pastebin.com/m1ff36359
My Xorg.0.log  http://pastebin.com/m5aa1f6eb

Obviously I can live without ever leaving gnome if I had to, but I'd rather get this right before messing around with compiz-fusion

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: blue lines running down screen after leaving X-windows

I'm thinking it might be your non existant HorizSync and VertRefresh values.

Check out the monitor section in the xorg.conf section here: (Should be a little down from the link I gave you)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … rg.conf.3F

Also, look at the rest of the section to see if you missed anything.

Last edited by Statix (2008-03-30 18:11:44)

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: blue lines running down screen after leaving X-windows

I found that I had to change to nvidia-96xx to get my Nexuiz game working properly after a nvidia pacman upgrade a while ago.  I use a GeForce 6200.

Also if I remember correctly you should comment out the dri module in your xorg.conf to prevent it from loading.  I'm not at that computer right now so I can't check but I'm pretty sure that's what I did.

Yeah...I checked that comp. and the dri module is commented out.  Also it mentions it in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … DIA_driver

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-03-30 19:29:26)

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Phill

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Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 2

Re: blue lines running down screen after leaving X-windows

Cheers, I've added in the HorizSync VertRefresh sections, still no luck though.

As for the DRI bit I'm a little perplexed as to why it's trying to load that.  I'd already completely removed it from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
EndSection
 
Section "Module"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Has no DRI and no Type1

Yet the log shows:

(**) FontPath set to:
        /usr/share/fonts/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/TTF,
        /usr/share/fonts/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/TTF,
        /usr/share/fonts/Type1

and

(II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "freetype" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "record" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dri" will be loaded by default.

No idea where it's picking up the Type1 or DRI from, as those are no longer in xorg.conf

I'll have to try nvidia-96xx next time I'm at work (where I can plug into the network ), currently posting this from vista as I'm dual booting and have yet to try get my ZTE modem working.