Yeah, It's funny that I really have not experienced too many of the visual artifacts when using the Nouveau drivers. Mostly It's been performance and heat related issues. I've definitely had issues with with extending and duplicating my desktop workspace too. I think you're right about the laptops, I have not had any issues with my desktop, but that has a much newer graphics card. Opensource drivers are so much better than they used to be though. I'm just glad I don't have to spend days trying to figure out my X config... I remember trying to get the X server running on Slackware v12 or Slackware v11. I want to say that it was Slackware v12 because I remember running a 2.6.x kernel, which was released around then. It might have been running Slackware v11 after compiling the 2.6 kernel. At any rate, Nouveau drivers are so much better than what we used to have. -> Jake On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote: > I will say, to get in front of a likely future post ... the open source > drivers have issues. The pink line is one. The one I often run into is > failure to support the external VGA port while in 3D acceleration mode. > > The fix is to use the Nvidia Proprietary drivers. However, on *some* > systems, this introduces new issues. The one I keep seeing is that the > driver isn't always recognized by X on boot. This mostly happens after > kernel updates, but can happen if my laptop has been off too long or not > off long enough. It's weird and immensely frustrating. The fix is to use > the poweroff command, let it sit for 60 seconds and turn it on again. Then > all the kernel modules register in the right order. > > You can sometimes force it by uninstalling and re-installing the drivers > with apt-get or dpkg, but sometimes that doesn't work either. This problem > seems particular to laptops that have both Intel and NVidia cards and are > using the NVidia proprietary drivers. > > -Josh > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:58 AM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I was using the provided drivers. Switching to the proprietary drivers >> solved the problem. >> >> On 04/29/2014 09:45 AM, Josh More wrote: >> > Are you using the provided drivers or the binary drivers from >> > Nvidia? >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:20 AM, David Wagle >> > <david.wagle at gmail.com <mailto:david.wagle at gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Nvidia 7600 4G >> > >> > On 04/29/2014 09:12 AM, Jake Vath wrote: >> >> What kind of graphics is you computer running? AMD, NVidia, or >> >> Intel? >> > >> >> -> Jake >> > >> > >> >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, David Wagle >> >> <david.wagle at gmail.com <mailto:david.wagle at gmail.com> >> > <mailto:david.wagle at gmail.com <mailto:david.wagle at gmail.com>>> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> So I decided to install Mint Cinnamon LMDE for yucks. >> > >> >> It works great and I could see even sticking with this over >> >> XMonad on Arch, I'm kind of done with tweaking for tweaking's >> >> sake :) >> > >> >> But I have an issue that I can't quite figure out. >> > >> >> On my left monitor I have a bright pink line on the left most >> >> side of the monitor. >> > >> >> What's really weird is that if I do a screen capture, it doesn't >> >> show up, so I can't give a picture of it. It does appear to be >> >> outside the display area because when I move my mouse over >> >> there, the mouse stops before going over the pink line. >> > >> >> Any ideas? _______________________________________________ TCLUG >> >> Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> > <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org>> >> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing >> >> List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List >> > - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List >> > - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ >> >> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTX730AAoJELWzpBXk2k3wzS8IAIoObXMyyZl88PtShNPP+CIx >> UDxi1dfrf3IqE1pEiwICUCiBjWTfCVHnYnhIQeYnRB4ecwpf1toBtXf3JeWdi+Vi >> C8scJ4eY4Rp6Ri8UTfNUi0bIxhjyzLZiOePoJwHvW0nw0A5L2RCm61bWumMb/pmx >> ZSkeS/HgFsQ11F+IzBStCBtY+w1pSP0Z6JATt3mgprjlmd+ZTaXVeBSa8x86tytd >> cGt8hN7C1hJcSTqoF5LAo8lijejglJq6FLHu9j+79zaYm/a67w6vODTmEaKGsQyv >> w8Sr1y81Dd2RWcZxiYWOJtsP3FyyXEi5NDJfvRMG/vhHlsF/yhkDuelIOkBBlFQ= >> =5ZN7 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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