Blackening of some screen areas

[Harold Aling]

2011/5/10 Ozan Türkyılmaz <ozan.turkyilmaz at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 10 May 2011, Harold Aling wrote:
>>
>> 2011/5/10 Ozan Türkyılmaz <ozan.turkyilmaz at gmail.com>:
>> > On Tue, 10 May 2011, Harold Aling wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The NVidia proprietary driver here...
>> >>
>> >
>> > It could be very well a bug in the driver. With 2.6.38, Nouveau get very
>> > good. Try with it to see if it disappears.
>>
>> Nouveau causes weird artifacts and a 'still screen' (no changes) after
>> loading the driver so it's a no-go on my NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS. I'll
>> try a newer kernel and maybe a bleeding edge Nouveau driver as soon as
>> I find some time ;)
>
> I forgot to ask, do you use composite with or without xfwm4/compiz?

Well, I currently don't use Xfce... I'm in the middle of a "LXDE
exploration period" ;)

I just replied to say I have the same issue on Lxterminal with
Openbox. The black spots (and flickering during resize of Lxterminal)
seem to be NVidia related, since I don't have them on my EEEPC and on
my work desktop (AMD/ATi).


-H-