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    GNOME problem on Ubuntu 8.10, help appreciated.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Emor, Nov 13, 2008.

  1. Emor

    Emor Notebook Consultant

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    GNOME now has a MAJOR graphics card problem now... it was always apparent for some reason or another, Ubuntu in general didn't like my Intel Celeron M integrated graphics(IDK the name it... :p), regularly having display glitches, but it's never done this.
    Basically, I need to know how to dis-able Compiz Fusion from KDE, on GNOME, is you understand(KDE has no problems, posting from KDE).
    I know, I forgot to tell you what's happened. Despite it's irrelevance(IMO), I enabled mouse positioning polling on compiz fusion, and then the screen just displayed loads of randomly coloured lines(only about 2-5 pixels thicks). The colours are striped, but in-consistent when I try to log-in.
    Sorry for this post being rather hard to comprehend, but yeah.
    Any help would be appreciated,
    EMZ=]
     
    Emor, Nov 13, 2008
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  2. zephyrus17

    zephyrus17 Notebook Deity

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    Well, why don't you just remove compiz?
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 13, 2008
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    StaffyDaddy Notebook Enthusiast

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    You might want to try booting in recovery mode, then:
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

    I was testing Intrepid on an old laptop, made some change, and got a garbage display. dpkg-reconfigure set it right.

    Good luck.
    -John
     
    StaffyDaddy, Nov 13, 2008
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