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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] Re: context menus & window backgrounds, brief corrupt image
From:       johnm <s2 () forceway ! com>
Date:       2012-07-06 1:39:23
Message-ID: 4FF641CB.7090700 () forceway ! com
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I recently switched to an NVidia card and the problem went away. Before
I had had two different ATI cards that had the problem.

-johnm


On 07/05/2012 12:05 AM, Malvern Star wrote:
> 
> I also see this when installing on my test machine. I kind of gave up on getting it \
> fixed I'm afraid. It's definitely a bug, but I haven't seen any progress on it \
> whatsoever.  
> 
> > On Jul 04, 2012; 7:59am, polrus wrote:
> > > i'm still experiencing this problem - it is not related with the video driver \
> > > because i use both opensource ati and fglrx and the problem shows on both \
> > > drivers. 
> > > disabling/enabling effects has nothig to do with it. DOes it also happen to \
> > > anyone on 32bit system. I use 64 bit and maybe this problem affects only 64bit \
> > > users?
> > 
> > 
> > I know this problem all too well since sometime back during openSUSE 
> > 11.4. I'm fairly sure that it didn't exist when 11.4 was first installed 
> > so maybe an update introduced a bug.
> > 
> > It happens for me on two different 32-bit systems using old ATI cards 
> > and the free Radeon drivers. One is a seven-year-old laptop with a 
> > Mobility Radeon 9700, the other a desktop with a Radeon 9600 AGP 256mb 
> > card. Needless to say FGLRX support was dropped for this generation of 
> > cards about 3 years ago so free drivers are the only option.
> > 
> > I think this issue is separate from the one others are experiencing with 
> > previous screen images filling the menus. I've seen that issue on other 
> > configurations in the past but this is more a case of patterns (grey, 
> > stripey) which sometimes fill the menu areas on the first click, 
> > sometimes subsequent clicks, fairly randomly. I've always taken it to be 
> > the most reliable symptom of more general problems with this card, its 
> > drivers or its KDE integration because I've had other general graphics 
> > instability issues from time to time.
> > 
> > I've fiddled extensively with KDE system settings, desktop effects, Xorg 
> > arguments, modeset options. The desktop system sometimes does not show 
> > 3D / Gallium as available in KDE sysinfo whilst the laptop does. I even 
> > did a fresh reinstall of 12.1 on the laptop and set up KDE again 
> > manually rather than copying most of the configuration over, but the 
> > problem remains, although curiously on a second user account that I 
> > rarely use I don't see the problem so extensively. Desktop effects are 
> > on with that account but off on my main one since I was getting too 
> > frequent slow-downs and other troubles.
> > 
> > The desktop machine had much more severe graphic corruption issues all 
> > over the screen. This is my parents' computer and since they are in 
> > another country, I'd upgraded it to 11.4, checked everything was fine 
> > for a couple of weeks and left them to it, only to hear some weeks later 
> > that all these issues had started (with no further updates applied), 
> > rendering it barely useable. On my next visit I upgraded it to 12.1 and 
> > the problem persisted. After much tinkering the only solution was to 
> > turn 3D off via the Xorg.conf file. But they still get these brief menu 
> > corruptions.
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