[Novalug] graphical issues

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Julia Christianson wrote:

> I don't know if this is a KDE problem, a *buntu problem, or an 
> X problem, but I'm having pretty severe graphical issues:
>
> (1) My xorg.conf file keeps getting overwritten with a very 
> minimal 640x480 config, usually after a reboot although it also 
> happened once during a session, just after configuring a screen 
> saver.  And sometimes the xorg.conf file is unchanged over 
> reboot but the video mode gets set to something widescreen (my 
> monitor is not).  And
>
> (2) I'd like to be able to log out, so that others in the 
> household can have their own accounts on the machine, but 
> whenever I do, the screen displays something that looks like a 
> chunk of ram with a repeating pattern displaying in text mode, 
> and keyboard and mouse are nonfunctional, so it requires a hard 
> reboot.
>
> This is Kubuntu gutsy, updates up to date, fairly recent but 
> not cutting edge nvidia card, and viewsonic lcd display, but 
> I've also experienced symptom (1) with a CentOS install with an 
> onboard graphics chip & widescreen display (it might also have 
> had (2) but I didn't stay with it long enough to know).
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.

 	That sounds like the problems I used to have with Gnome 
every time I installed a new release of Fedora, till I learned to 
take each machine out from behind the KVM switch, and let it have 
the peripherals all to itself for the duration of the install. I 
sometimes get them still when I reboot after a session with XP on 
the other hard drive, back into Fedora. What works then is to 
command "xrandr" then log out and back in. I have no idea what 
xrandr is or does, but it might be a quick fix.

 	Before that was enough, sometimes it helped to command 
"metacity --replace" and sometimes also log out and back in.

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