Display sometimes goes sqiffy when using vln/mplayer

[Ben Edwards]

On 12/01/07, squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Ben Edwards wrote:
> > I have had this problem for a while, ime using a laptop nvida graphics
> > card.  Every so often when I go into vln or mplayer the display gets
> > corrupted, the same stuff is kind of mirrored in 5+ stripes
> > overlapping making the display unusable. Atl+Alt+f3 etc. to go to
> > another console ro restart gdm does nothing.   The full screen
> > playback works OK.  The only solution is to reboot.
> >
> > Any idea why this is happening and how to fix it?
> >
> > Using Ubuntu Dapper on a Dell Latitude 2650.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> Hi Ben,
> have you tried Ctrl+Alt+F2, to go to Login screen, then Ctrl+Alt+F7

Ctrl+Alt+F2 does nothing ;(

> This works for me.
> take Care
> Winton
>
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