On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Mike Kupfer <m.kup...@acm.org> wrote:
> Joel Rees wrote: > > > > Anybody else seen this? Have an idea what's going on? > > I haven't seen this, nor do I know what's going on, but here are some > things I would check if I were seeing that sort of video breakage: > Thanks for responding. I was wondering if everyone had kill-filed me. > Do you have compositing enabled (under Window Manager Tweaks)? If you > do, does the problem go away if you disable compositing? > Compositing is not enabled, according to the GUI. Maybe I should try enabling it. (My son's monopolizing the box right now.) > I'm assuming that you're using more or less standard Xfce. Haven't been ambitious enough to do a lot of modding, so it should be. But I'm not confident I got all the implicit dependencies taken care of when I upgraded from squeeze to wheezy. > If that's > incorrect, a more detailed description of your desktop setup would be > helpful. > > And do you know what video card you're using and what driver? > On-board graphics on a cheap AMD (Sempron) motherboard -- VIA KM266pro, I think, maybe KM400, + VT8237 -- from about eight or nine years ago. Again, I'll have to get my son to finish up what he's doing, to look at the dmesg and /proc carefully. A quick scan didn't find me the drivers and he wants to play with the internet. > regards, > mike > -- Joel Rees
