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Hi there,
every now and then I experience a strange graphic bug with KDE 4.2 that corrupts some of my program labels. Check out the following screenshots:
Shift-Alt-F12 doesn't help. I can only get back to normality by restarting the X-Server. Really annoying that.
Does anybody have any idea, what might cause this?
TIA,
Blackhole
Last edited by blackhole (2009-02-18 07:00:47)
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Thats exactly what was happening to me in kde with my nvidia 6800 card with the 173 driver
until I went to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and commented out
Option "PixmapCacheSize" "300000"
Also, kde crashed at startup until i removed
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Last edited by 1LordAnubis (2009-02-17 20:50:30)
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Hm, I do have a nvidia card. It's the "Quadro NVS 110M" on my Latitude D620.
However unfortunately I do not have the line you were posting in my xorg.conf:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Jan 6 10:03:55 PST 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
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"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LPL"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "100x100"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 110M"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1440x900_60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Any idea?
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hmm, here is my old xorg.conf: http://1lordanubis.yakkel.com/xorg.conf
I really have no idea... but if I were you I might try trial and error; commenting out these:
Option "Xinerama" "0" <-doubt its that, but I've never used/seen it before
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "100x100"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
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hmm, here is my old xorg.conf: http://1lordanubis.yakkel.com/xorg.conf
I really have no idea... but if I were you I might try trial and error; commenting out these:
Option "Xinerama" "0" <-doubt its that, but I've never used/seen it before
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "100x100"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Hm, without Composite now Desktop Effects, right? And without the DPI settings ugly fonts. So I really don't know. The only thing might be the "UseEdidDpi". Does anybody know what this option is doing?
Last edited by blackhole (2009-02-19 17:40:03)
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Well, I tried removing the UseEdidDpi Option, it didn't help though. This bug is driving me nuts. Does anybody have any idea, please?
At this point Linux is unusable for me. If you can't read your screen content, you can't use your computer, can you?
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