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shalaby

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Registered: 2011-01-06

Posts: 44

[solved]display problems after installing nvidia driver

hi
i have nvidia geforce 8400 gs card, after i uninstalled all other drivers, installed nvidia,nvidia-utils, then nvidia-config,then installed vpdau-video,then restart
i noticed that hardware and deamon checks screen after boot became huge letters as if no driver installed yet, and when i run lxterminal i noticed black window on the top left of the screen exactly the same size as the terminal window, and when i browse using chromium and the page contains flash video, the video window image stays on the screen.

Last edited by shalaby (2011-05-02 15:33:41)

MadCatMk2

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Registered: 2010-05-10

Posts: 84

Re: [solved]display problems after installing nvidia driver

That's quite strange; did you go through this part of the wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Configuring

student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

Posts: 613

Re: [solved]display problems after installing nvidia driver

I think current nvidia driver is broken - I have these black windows at some rare situations also (under KDE without effects; no under OpenBox). IIRC, nvidia developers mentioned somewhere in Arch bugs system they are aware of the problem.

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shalaby

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Registered: 2011-01-06

Posts: 44

Re: [solved]display problems after installing nvidia driver

then the solution is to remove it and install the open source one?

shalaby

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Registered: 2011-01-06

Posts: 44

Re: [solved]display problems after installing nvidia driver

when i enabled composite all this disapeared.