buggy display

[Dawa]

Just recently switched my desktop resolution, and now there's a lot of images getting corrupted or something whenever they load. Refreshing works, or just minimizing and restoring the window works sometimes too. This is happening everywhere - firefox, kopete, even the kmenu. I would've just changed the resolution back, but I'm kind of afraid that will make things worse.

I've googled this and saw something to this effect (i think) reported as a bug. Does anybody know any kind of quick fix for this? KInfoCenter tells me I'm using "savage" drivers for my video card. This computer (an old Compaq Presario) is getting a bit long in the tooth, so all the hardware is probably considered pretty ancient by now.

Thanks for the help.

edit: almost forgot. I'm using Kubuntu 7.04, if that makes a difference.

[Rog131]

Re: buggy display

You could check Xorg log:

Errors:

:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)"

Warnings:

:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)"

Or K > System > System Logs Viewer (KSystemLog)


More:
LinuxLogFiles
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles

[Dawa]

Re: buggy display

okay, I checked the Xorg log through KSystemLog. I have no idea what any of this means.

This is the only message that has a red X to the left of it:


error xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/wacom

it's shown up about three times in the log. I'd post the whole log, but it's pretty long.

[Rog131]

Re: buggy display

Probably this:
Topic: X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=7964.0

From Ubuntu forums:
The answer about "Error opening /dev/wacom "
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=200877

Note
Device number may vary

[Dawa]

Re: buggy display

thanks for the links. i'm still drowning in linux somewhat, but i'm learning to swim. This reminds me of when i learned about something called the "registry" in windows years and years and years ago. It was a lot of fun to learn my way around, until I broke something.

Anyway... I found a temporary fix. I set the screen resolution back to what it was originally. Like I said, this computer is somewhat of a junker, so I wouldn't be surprised if my video card was causing the problems.

[Rog131]

Re: buggy display


Here are bug reports for savage:

Bugs in xserver-xorg-video-savage in ubuntu
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...o-savage/+bugs