Anyone have any idea why thishappens when I log into kde4 on opensuse 11.1 64bit?
It happens just after you see the nividia logo on boot, and twice after you log in. It will also happen when I switch between full screen and window mode in Virtual box.
I have no idea what causes this or if anything can be done.
If it helps I have a 24" LCD monitor connected via HDMI.
thanx
Nothing to worry about. KDE4 seems to be producing all manner of oddities like this at boot.
hi mejason69,
i’m having exact the same issue. Same as you i have 24" monitor (1920x1200/75Hz), 64 bit system with nvidia 8800gts card.
And what even more irritating is when i watch dvd films in full screen mode, regardless of the player i use, i get some horizontal flickering. Not whole the time but often enough to irritate hell out of me.
I still have to try to watch dvd on windows on the same machine (dual boot) but i don’t have dvd player yet (not even cracked one :’( ).
I guess it is a driver issue. So maybe there is a hope in foreseeable future.
me too
i dont get the same exact picture but instead its a pussle of of the pictures of my screen 
Remove package:
kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE
…which will automatically select the upstream version in it’s place and accept the changes.
There’s a bug in the suse package that makes it do that!
Question: did all of you try different Nvidia-drivers ? I got exactly this a while ago. Found out it was due to driver remains of different versions. This made kaffeine4 ‘hang’, just a <defunct> procekde-ss, but restart in same state on a kde restart. Scattered images during start, during screensaver, scattered video. Ever since this happened I make sure to completely remove the old driver if I replace it.
Yes, plenty of people have tried various things and there are a few threads on this forum on the subject, see here:
Now seeing parts of previous images on login! - openSUSE Forums
I personally tried with both the compiled binary driver from nvidia, and the suse provided driver on both an old and clean install and the only way to get rid of it was to dump the branding package.
Suddenly remembered: the problem is in kdm4 !! If you install kdebase3-kdm, and change /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager to start kdm instead of kdm4 the phenomenon is gone as well.
In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager look for the line:
DISPLAYMANAGER=“kdm4”
Change “kdem4” to “kdm”, save, log out, log in, and you should be alright. This way you can keep the branding as is. Problem only persists on 8*- and 9*-series.
On my 32bit laptop, 15.4" and nvidia 7600 go i do not have this problem (laptop is too opensuse 11.1 with factory kde 4.2…exactly same install, only 32 bit)
But login annoyance is not really a thing that bothers me - it is video quality.
Am i only one who experiences bad video quality?
I just played dvd on windows vista (vlc player) and it played well, perfect picture. so i guess it is a driver issue.
That worked like a charm…also something to note I have a GTX 280 and is still got that effect from the driver. So it seems to be an issue with all the late model Nvidia cards.
Anyone know if we have an open bug report for this? If no where should we file this? Suse or Nvidia? Both?
