On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at 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