Scrambled destop and windows

Hi

I have Opensuse 12.1 on a Gateway gt3246m,
Desktop core2 2Gb RAM
3HD: system on 40Gb, home on 400Gb and clip-art and other files on an additional 120Gb
No other OS installed.

Since 12.0 I got this problem, but ocassionally, now I have this problem more and more frecuently.

Suddenly I got desktop and all windows scrambled, not only bitmaps, inclusive text presentation becomes scrambled as you can see on following screenshot.

Any ideas about how to solve this? Does is this soft or hardware issue?

Best regards
npinelo

http://www.artesaniadigital.net/x/scramble.jpg

openSUSE came in versions 11.4 and 12.1 but not in version 12.0 to select from. When I looked up this model of computer it said the default was built-in Intel Graphics. Is that correct? You might consider doing a kernel update perhaps. One method would be to load the kernel version 3.4.4 from The Linux Kernel Archives using my bash script SAKC you can find here:

S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.75 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

It works like a champ and does not remove your old kernel version allowing you more than one openSUSE startup option. You can also add in the kernel/head repository and load it from YaST, but then I suggest you enable the ability to keep two active kernels loaded (not required if you compile and load a kernel outside of YaST using SAKC). Let us know more about your video system and what you feel comfortable in doing to solve the problem. Consider the kernel is where the graphics driver for Intel is located. Now I suppose its also possible you actually have a video or PC hardware problem, but all OS’ would have this problem such as dual booting with Windows.

Thank You,

On 2012-07-09 22:26, npinelo wrote:
> Any ideas about how to solve this? Does is this soft or hardware issue?

It looks hardware to me, a bad contact on the video card or memory, or the
video cable. But I can be wrong.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

On 07/09/2012 10:26 PM, npinelo wrote:
> [image:http://www.artesaniadigital.net/x/scramble.jpg]

i notice the uploaded image show an absolutely perfect appearing panel
(at the bottom of the image)…so i doubt it is either kernel or
hardware related…rather, i think it is a software problem…KDE or
the window manager, or something…

i’d suggest the OP create a new test user with YaST and log in as that
user to see if the problems do not occur again…

or, run from a Live CD…i think in either case getting away from a
software conflict will solve the problem…

npinelo, you could tell us which version of KDE you are running?
are you running compiz and KDE?
how did you get to openSUSE 12.1? (that is, did you do a fresh install
of it after a format…OR did you upgrade over an existing 11.4 or what?)

as well as please show us the terminal input/output from


zypper lr -d

copy/paste the in/output back to this thread using the instructions
here: http://goo.gl/i3wnr

doing that we might be able to sort out the software conflict…if
that is the problem.


dd

Hi dd and thanks for your help
I have KDE version 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5”
I running only KDE, no compiz (till my understand)
My installation is a fresh install (format, etc.), but made since release of 12.1

#  | Alias                                       | Name                                        | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                              | Service                                                                                                                                                                                   
---+---------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------                                                                                                                                                                                   
 1 | Actualizaciones-para-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4 | Actualizaciones para openSUSE 12.1 12.1-1.4 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/                                        |                                                                                                                                                                                           
 2 | games                                       | games                                       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_12.1/                   |                                                                                                                                                                                           
 3 | google-earth                                | google-earth                                | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64                               |                                                                                                                                                                                           
 4 | libdvdcss                                   | DVD Repository                              | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.1/                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                           
 5 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4                      | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4                      | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GSA-H40N_M0078S81103,/dev/sr0 |                                                                                                                                                                                           
 6 | packman                                     | Packman repository (openSUSE_12.1)          | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.1                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                           
 7 | repo-debug                                  | openSUSE-12.1-Debug                         | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/                   |        
 8 | repo-debug-update                           | openSUSE-12.1-Update-Debug                  | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.1/                                  |        
 9 | repo-non-oss                                | openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss                       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss/                     |        
10 | repo-oss                                    | openSUSE-12.1-Oss                           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/                         |        
11 | repo-source                                 | openSUSE-12.1-Source                        | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/                  |        

npinelo

Hi jdmcdaniel3, thanks for your extensive response.

You’re right, I means since previous open suse version (11.4) :shame:

I will follow your tutorial in 1-2 days, once I finised some urgent work, thus I will tell you if solved. In the meantime I can tell you is needed a kernel upgrade, I have v 3.1.0-1.2

Best regards
Npinelo

On 07/10/2012 09:26 AM, npinelo wrote:
>
> Hi dd and thanks for your help
> I have KDE version 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5”
> I running only KDE, no compiz (till my understand)
> My installation is a fresh install (format, etc.), but made since
> release of 12.1
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
> —±--------------------------------------------±--------------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
> 1 | Actualizaciones-para-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4 | Actualizaciones para openSUSE 12.1 12.1-1.4 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ |
> 2 | games | games | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_12.1/ |
> 3 | google-earth | google-earth | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
> 4 | libdvdcss | DVD Repository | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.1/ |
> 5 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GSA-H40N_M0078S81103,/dev/sr0 |
> 6 | packman | Packman repository (openSUSE_12.1) | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.1 |
> 7 | repo-debug | openSUSE-12.1-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ |
> 8 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-12.1-Update-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.1/ |
> 9 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss/ |
> 10 | repo-oss | openSUSE-12.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ |
> 11 | repo-source | openSUSE-12.1-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ |
> --------------------
>
>
> npinelo
>
>

this may or may not solve your problem…but it won’t make things any
worse (if you are careful) and you can still do the kernel upgrade later
if you still have the problem…

first lets disable all repos other than the prime four (you can read
about in the paragraph which begins with “IMPORTANT” here:
http://tinyurl.com/33qc9vu), to do that open YaST Software
Repositories where you will see all the above repos listed:

  • one by one single left click (to highlight and focus) on each EXCEPT
    numbers

#6 - packman
#9 - non-oss
#10 - oss

and with all the other (one at a time) highlighted click to uncheck the
boxes near the bottom to enable and refresh or not

then, you can also stop the refresh on #9 non-oss and #10 oss because
those never change, and no need to try refreshing…

when you are done with that you should see three check marks to enable,
and one to refresh in your list…

when finished with that click the “Ok” button

before you proceed, i assume you have a good, off machine backup of all
your important data (music, video, photos, emails etc etc etc) and i ask
you to read the caveat in my sig, and if you wish wait for others here
to proof-read my typing and tell you it looks safe to them…

then, while conneced to the net, open a konsole and do these things one
at a time, first we will add the update repo *…then in the same terminal/konsole window are more
zypper commands which should remove all conflicting software, and return
you to a day one install:


su -		< do not forget the -, and give root pass when asked
zypper ar -f -n 'Updates' http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/
zypper clean -all
rpmdb --rebuilddb
zypper ref
zypper dup
zypper patch

each (or some) of those might take a good while to run (several minutes)
do NOT interrupt it, don’t abort it and don’t let it run out of battery
while doing it…if you get any error message STOP, do not go to the
next step, instead return here with the error message…

good luck! by the way, this has worked before, see
http://tinyurl.com/boqsodw


dd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
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