Try turning off desktop effects rt click on desktop and pick change desktop background, choose visual effects tab and check none. Worked for me on an old laptop with same problem.
On Jul 23, 1:51 am, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, where do I go to search for it? > > On Jul 22, 3:37 pm, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Derek wrote: > > > I am not sure, I do not want to take apart this computer because it is > > > my grandfathers, and we may be turning it in for a new one soon. > > > > And the second question you had, where can I find that? > > > > On Jul 22, 2:36 pm, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Given that I am new to the entire Linux thing, (and so used to the > > > > > Windows atmosphere) I am having slight problems with my O.S. > > > > > > First of all, whenever it idles for a little bit, my screen goes black > > > > > and starts flashing multi-colored bars. I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed > > > > > on two desktop computers, and same story for both of them. It seems to > > > > > be a problem with the Screen saver, because when I tried to edit the > > > > > screen saver to switch it off, the black screen and multi colored bars > > > > > came up again. Also, if I have been using this O.S. for over an hour > > > > > straight, the same story. > > > > > Sounds like a video driver issue. > > > > > What video chip do you have, and what driver does Ubuntu say is > > > > installed? > > > > > -- > > > > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > > > > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/ > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > > Group. > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > > For more options, visit our group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > You can get both pieces of information with lspci. Run 'lspci -vv' and > > find the stanza about your video card, and paste that output. i.e.: > > > $ lspci -vv > > ... > > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] > > (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > > Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1091 > > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- > > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > > Latency: 0 > > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 > > Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > > Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > > Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] > > Region 5: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] > > [virtual] Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=128K] > > Capabilities: <access denied> > > Kernel driver in use: nvidia > > Kernel modules: nvidia > > > This shows us what video card, and what driver the kernel's using. > > Also post the output of 'uname -a', since that will give us contextual > > information about the version of the video driver. > > > application_pgp-signature_part > > < 1KViewDownload > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
