Splotchy video[SOLVED]

Huwawa · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:02 am Post subject: Splotchy video[SOLVED]

I'm having a video problem. In everything on my display, everything looks splotchy, kind of like bad jpeg compression. Is anyone else having this problem, or know how to fix it?

Here's my xorg.conf:

thestick · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 531 Location: /dev/urandom

show us a screenshot (emerge scrot; scrot -d 0

or take a picture of the screen.

Huwawa · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:56 am Post subject:

When I used scrot or import the image was fine. This is what I could get with my camera:

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb94/nate3000/00002.jpg

(The corruption is especially prevalent on the shirt.)

thestick · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 531 Location: /dev/urandom

is this happening only in movies or on the full desktop?

Huwawa · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

Everything. The full desktop.
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StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

It might look like that if you were at 15 or 16 bit color depth, but your xorg.conf clearly specifies 24.

This should output " depth of root window: 24 planes":

Huwawa · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:22 am Post subject:

Huwawa · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:35 am Post subject:

BUMP. Any ideas?
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StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

Does it happen with that other operating system, or with a different monitor? Is the video card overclocked?

Huwawa · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:32 am Post subject:

I don't have a livecd, so I can't do that test.
It works fine on another monitor. It's not overclocked.
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Huwawa · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject:

BUMP
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Huwawa · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

It turns out to be the blob nvidia driver. when I try with nv, it works fine. Damned nvidia.. :evil:

THank you guys for all your help!

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