11.1 to 12.1 network upgrade - graphics/screen corrupt

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Hi,
Yesterday I upgraded from 11.1 to 12.1 using the network option. But now, after log on, the screen is corrupted. The corruption occurs after the fourth icon has appeared in the splash screen. Oddly, the menu bar/task bar at the bottom of the desktop screen is fine - it is windows that are corrupted (small, really fuzzy, and two for each application.) This occurs for all windows except that for Terminal.

The monitor worked fine with 11.1, and still works fine with my Windows and Linux Mint partitions.

Are you able to help?

Thanks.

Bryn.

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11.1 to 12.1 is not a good thing to do. There will be lots of config files left around that are incompatible with the new systems.

So what desktop are you using??

try adding a new user and log in as that new one see if there is still a problem. This will not use the old config files in you old home but create new in the new home for the new user.

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Thanks for your reply and help.

>> So what desktop are you using??

Don’t know. How can I find out using command line?

>> try adding a new user and log in as that new one see if there is still a problem. This will not use the old config files in you old home but create new in the new home for the new user.

OK, I’ll try to work out how to do that using command line.

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Try like this
Boot to Level 3, then Yast and More… - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

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OK, I created a new user (using Yast, having booted to level 3), then restarted, used default boot option, logged on as new user, but had the same problem.
Any other help you can give me?
By the way, default boot option has vga=0X305. Is that as expected?
How could I take a screen shot (if it helped you at all)?
Thanks.

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What graphics card are you using?


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A 2

Do you have an old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so rename it for example
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.111 and reboot, modern Linux do not need a
xorg.conf and your old one probably has incompatible settings.
In the worst case take a mobile phone with builtin camera or a digital
camera and make a photo of your garbled system (we hopefully can see
from that also what desktop you are using), try to make a screenshot
with simply pressing [PrtScr], on my laptop I have to press [Fn]+S
instead since it has no [PrtScr].
Upload the screenshot/photo at susepaste.org and give us the link here.

Provide also


uname -a

to be sure the kernel was updated and is the correct one.
And in addition the list of your repositories


zypper lr -d

please use for all computer output you post here code tags to have it
readable (advanced editor button in the forum).

And finally I have no idea if the vga=0X305 is correct for you, you can
just remove it before you bot and see if it makes a difference.

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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.5 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10

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>> Do you have an old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so rename it for example
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.111 and reboot, modern Linux do not need a
xorg.conf and your old one probably has incompatible settings.

OK, thank you, your advice has worked. Super! For info:

>> And finally I have no idea if the vga=0X305 is correct for you, you can
just remove it before you bot and see if it makes a difference.

did not work. And for more info:

Code:

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A 2

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Dimension 3000 [1028:019d]
Kernel driver in use: i915