Nvidia - scrambled kdm background and login splash

[buckmaster60]

Here is the easy fix:
Black and white squares during KDE login - openSUSE Forums

[Knurpht]

That's not a fix !! It is a suggestion to change some lines in an xml file, which is to be replaced on the next update, so problem reoccurs.
Apparently there's something between the NVIDIA driver and kdm4.

I know that installing kdebase3-kdm is no real fix either, but it doesn't get deleted on the next update.

[baskitcaise]

Knurpht adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 11 May 2009 10:36 to write:

>
> That's not a fix !! It is a suggestion to change some lines in an xml
> file, which is to be replaced on the next update, so problem reoccurs.
> Apparently there's something between the NVIDIA driver and kdm4.
>
> I know that installing kdebase3-kdm is no real fix either, but it
> doesn't get deleted on the next update.
>
>

Just a thought here but do you have effects enabled?

You will see these artifacts on the KDE boot up.

There is a discussion in the beta group along these lines.

I have the same probs with an nvidia and 2 ati cards 64bit and 32 bit, if I
disable the fade in and fade out it does get a bit better and if I disable
all effects then the login screen and KDM work fine.

Just a bit of an added feature (bug)

HTH
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Mark

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[qqwasder]

Tnx to heinrich773 for posting this fix. It worked for me with openSUSE 11.1, KDE 4.2.2-110 and nvidia 180.51