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    Cannot view screen unless mouse is over object

    I have a xps M1710 with Nvidia Geforce Go 7950 GT.

    Upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10. I had no issues with 13.04. Once upgraded to 13.10 it was difficult to read anything once I rebooted. The desktop looked okay at first but if I used dolphin, chromium, or any window that popped up it was difficult to read. It was like the screen was not refreshing. I had to move the mouse pointer over everything to update the screen but when I moved the mouse pointer sometimes what I saw just went back to the image I saw previously. If I opened a window on top of another window it would totally screwed up the window underneath if I looked at it again. Hopefully that made sense.

    Is this a device driver issue or software issue? Any ideas to fix this?

    thanks

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    I had similar issues (Screen was "blurry" until the mouse hovers) and I got rid of it by

    * deleting ~/.kde folder to reset KDE
    * purging all nvidia drivers (nvidia-319, nvidia-319-updates, nvidia-current, nvidia-current-updates) and reinstall the latest stable version (for me nvidia-319)

    Now the UI is stable and running nice and smooth, again

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      #3
      Originally posted by mrboese View Post
      I had similar issues (Screen was "blurry" until the mouse hovers) and I got rid of it by

      * deleting ~/.kde folder to reset KDE
      * purging all nvidia drivers (nvidia-319, nvidia-319-updates, nvidia-current, nvidia-current-updates) and reinstall the latest stable version (for me nvidia-319)

      Now the UI is stable and running nice and smooth, again
      Thanks for the comments but when I deleted the home/.kde folder I was not able to install nvidia-319. I had issues connecting to the internet because when I upgraded for whatever reason it lost my WEP key and I couldn't type it in because my screen got worse and I can't read anything in the panel.

      Now when I reboot I get a message saying Call to Inusertemp failed (temporary directories full? check your installation.

      I think I might have to go back to 13.04.

      Thanks

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        #4
        Originally posted by iceman View Post
        Thanks for the comments but when I deleted the home/.kde folder I was not able to install nvidia-319. I had issues connecting to the internet because when I upgraded for whatever reason it lost my WEP key and I couldn't type it in because my screen got worse and I can't read anything in the panel.

        Now when I reboot I get a message saying Call to Inusertemp failed (temporary directories full? check your installation.

        I think I might have to go back to 13.04.

        Thanks
        I finally got it to work by connecting to the internet via a hard line and uninstalled xserver-Xorg-video-nouveau and install nvidia-settings-319-updates.

        Thanks

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          #5
          That's why if I have to try something like that, I rename the folder to .kde-BU. At least then if that trick doesn't work, you can revert to the previous one by renaming it back after deleting the created .kde folder.
          KDE Rules!

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