Garbled screen on login/logout, and other times

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When I log into my system, right before the green and grey openSUSE
loading screen pops up, my screen becomes garbled. It does the same
thing when I log out, and when I view pictures fullscreen in Gwenview.

Screenie attached. Any ideas? Thanks…

[image: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/117583/garbled.jpg]

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Hi

Does this stop you from working or does it pop-up and go away?

I have the same issue on logout / login and also when i come in from
screensaver but it does not stop me working (lasts maybe 1 second).

I am not sure if it is a KDE 4.2 thing or Nvidia?

Let me guess, your running both :wink:

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On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:06 +0000, dustinmccoy wrote:
> When I log into my system, right before the green and grey openSUSE
> loading screen pops up, my screen becomes garbled. It does the same
> thing when I log out, and when I view pictures fullscreen in Gwenview.
>
> Screenie attached. Any ideas? Thanks…
>
> [image: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/117583/garbled.jpg]
>
>

Do you have an Intel GPU? This is fairly typical if so.
Not sure about Gwenview though. I don’t use that one.

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Same problem here. It started to happen after fresh install of suse
11.1 + kde 4.2 + newest nvidia drivers from their repository.

Other then it not looking professional, it really doesn’t stop me
working - not that i know of yet.

using nvidia 8800 gt

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Same problem here, at each login, with opensuse 11.1 + kde3 + nvidia
(latest driver 180) .

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binaryfudge;1939931 Wrote:
> Same problem here. It started to happen after fresh install of suse
> 11.1 + kde 4.2 + newest nvidia drivers from their repository.
>
> Other then it not looking professional, it really doesn’t stop me
> working - not that i know of yet.
>
> using nvidia 8800 gt

Same here. I also have an 8800gt and an Intel cpu. It happened shortly
after upgrading Nvidia’s drivers, so I’m pretty sure that’s the cause.

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Yep,same story here,using an 8800gts(G80) Nvidia drivers 180.22 ,(KDE
4.2.0) "release 88.4…the problem appear also under KDE 4.1,fresh
install of opensuse 11.1,right after I’ve installed the nvidia drivers.
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Ok, sounds like an nVidia problem then, thanks everyone. I suppose the
only option is to wait until a new driver comes out and hope it fixes
the problem!

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dustinmccoy wrote:

>
> Ok, sounds like an nVidia problem then, thanks everyone. I suppose the
> only option is to wait until a new driver comes out and hope it fixes
> the problem!
>
>
Hello,

I have the same problem on my Medion Akoya E1210 -MD97160 Netbook but I do
not have an NVDIA card in it. In my case it is Intel945 Express Chipset
Family and it happens with openSUSE 11.1 / KDE 3.5.10 during login/logout
and also very short.

Regards / Groeten,
Frans

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dustinmccoy;1940026 Wrote:
> Ok, sounds like an nVidia problem then, thanks everyone. I suppose the
> only option is to wait until a new driver comes out and hope it fixes
> the problem!

Any news on this one.

I just yesterday installed 11.1 and nvidia drivers from repo and still
this seems to happen.

On 1st login there’s only b&w garbage, but after that it is a
compilation of screen images ie. pictures, texts etc.

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