On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:

Diagonal thin black lines originating from upper left corner for starters. Then if I open a gui, whatever sort, that window gets those lines too. Menus are unreadable because of this, but slightly more readable if I move the mouse pointer over the menu entry. The lines tend to go away for a short while if I log off and log on again. Weird thing is that the lines are always diagonal and tend to always originate from the upper left corner of whatever window.

This is with gnome mind you, and *supposedly* this one is the most stable of all the desktop environments. Haven't tried with KDE and xfce. Can't tell for sure if it's gnome or the Nvidia drivers specifically, but I'm leaning towards the drivers.

It's not a hardware issue, as I've run rhel3 on the same machines w/o any artifacts.

The hardware's two-three year old Asus mobo with a single-core AMD x64 and a rather feisty Nvidia Quadra gfx card. Don't have the exact details right now, but it should give a hint or two. All the P4-machines, as well as the i7-boxes, seem to work fine with dkms.

I've never seen this problem at all - running AMD 64x2 7750, 4Gb memory with GEForce 7200gs card, nvidia driver nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf.x86_64 (from rpmforge - duh). I've used a 19" CRT, 17" 1280x1024 flat panel and, currently, 22" 1680x1050 flat panel (Emprex - cheap, but works great).

I tried the L&G nvidia driver last year some time, but I decided I'd rather have the rpmforge working dkms driver than the L&G, even though it's a beta driver. When I upgraded to 5.3, that was the first time the driver was actually rebuilt for the kernel since 5.0.

HTH

mhr