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McManiaC

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 15

Graphic issues with X

Hi,

From time to time I get a very annoying bug, which occures mainly when running on high cpu (gpu maybe?) load, i.e. while compiling, playing games etc... I have some screenshots:

www.n-sch.de/fehler.png
www.n-sch.de/mehrfehler.png

As you can see, i even changed the WM since I thought maybe its fluxbox' fault (although I dont regret switching to awesome ). This bug is mainly a graphical (yet annoying) problem, but one time X didnt respond at all and I've been forced to pull the power plug to restart my pc.

Some hard-/software infos:

Dell XPS M1530 with Core2Duo 2.2 GHz (dont know which exactly)
NVIDIA Geforce MGT8600

NVIDIA driver 180.22

Hmmm... Tell me if you need anything else to know.

I hope someone knows what to do...

McManiaC

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Graphic issues with X

Reminds me of a faulty GPU overheating. I experienced similar artifacts a few years ago on such a device. Although this was with an ATI.

You did not overclock, by chance?

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McManiaC

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 15

Re: Graphic issues with X

No overclocking at all. GPU temperature was at 64°C when it occurred earlier today.

bernarcher

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Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: Graphic issues with X

On second thought -- looking at fehler.png, it appears affecting the background image only. Probaly not hardware related, then. Can you confirm this?

Weird, after all.

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McManiaC

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 15

Re: Graphic issues with X

No, the moment it occures it affects the whole screen, but if you move a window it disappears again. And since you cant move the background it'll stay there until you restart X.

I just did a "diagnostic boot" which detects any hardware failures before booting anything else. It's quite a nice a tool and I've been using it before, but this time it didnt find any errors. So it definitly has sth to do with either X or my drivers. I never had any problems with my graphic card when running Windows either (I'm using Arch for about 2 months now, my first linux distribution, and im definitly not going back ).

Last edited by McManiaC (2009-03-06 02:56:43)