Hi guys,
since I installed Tumbleweed on my new hard drive I experience a strange problem when it comes to the login screen.
I can see a mixed up of my previous XFCE sessions.
Please have a look:
http://paste.opensuse.org/22683869
Also strange is the fact that the same happens when I do/did a reinstall with a different DE. First I installed Tumbleweed only with KDE Plasma 5 and had after a view restarts the same problem. A day later to reinstall Tumbleweed with XFCE. On the first boot of XFCE I saw pieces of the KDE desktop on my lightdm login screen.
Has anyone of you a clue what the problem is or have you guys maybe the same problem?
Forgot to mentioned that I am using a Lenovo T510 Laptop with a Nvidia NVS3100M graphics card (nouveau driver).
On 2015-06-06 00:46, Thor Thenhammer wrote:
> Has anyone of you a clue what the problem is or have you guys maybe the
> same problem?
I have seen things like that, but they don’t survive a reboot. At worst,
they don’t survive a power switch. They are (at least those I saw)
artifacts, screens still saved in the video hardware memory.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Hi robin_listas,
Thanks for your answer.
It was also my guess that the problem has to do with the video hardware memory. I think I will install 13.2 and maybe an other Distro on my new hard drive to see if I get the same problem again. Just to make sure that is not a hardware defekt.
I will come back later when I am finish with testing.
On 2015-06-06 10:06, Thor Thenhammer wrote:
>
> Hi robin_listas,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> It was also my guess that the problem has to do with the video hardware
> memory. I think I will install 13.2 and maybe an other Distro on my new
> hard drive to see if I get the same problem again. Just to make sure
> that is not a hardware defekt.
Try simply to fully power off the computer for a while (pull the cord;
the button is not enough); although I read somewhere that some video
cards have persistent memories.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Ok, after installing 13.2 on my Laptop I can say it must a problem within Tumbleweed. Maybe a bug in the graphics driver. On 13.2 there is no such strange behavior.
>
>Try simply to fully power off the computer for a while (pull the cord;
>the button is not enough); although I read somewhere that some video
>cards have persistent memories.
Yes, I read the thing with the persistent memories as well. After pulling the cord and a waiting time by a few minutes, the problem was gone. But some software in Tumbleweed must cause this problem.
On 2015-06-06 01:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2015-06-06 00:46, Thor Thenhammer wrote:
>> Has anyone of you a clue what the problem is or have you guys maybe the
>> same problem?
>
> I have seen things like that, but they don’t survive a reboot. At worst,
> they don’t survive a power switch. They are (at least those I saw)
> artifacts, screens still saved in the video hardware memory.
Have a look here:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935447
and
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-06/msg00353.html
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
I’ve seen this in the past, I took it for a hardware issue, since it disappeared when I took out the battery, then stayed OK until a kernel update (not every kernel update).
HI
I’ve had similar with kdm/plasma.
I’m getting random screen data splashed briefly on the screen between the login dialogue box closing and the startup splash being shown.
This also happens quite a lot between logout pressed and redisplay of login dialogue box.
It looks like a bit of old screen memory being displayed, its not always the same data and sometimes no data at all. The data is an
open session with programs like kmail open, you can’t read the data as it disappears off the screen too fast. i’ve logged a bug for it. https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935447
I’m using a nvidia GT218 and nouveau
regards
Ian