Display sometimes goes sqiffy when using vln/mplayer

Ben Edwards funkytwig at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 09:19:37 UTC 2007


On 12/01/07, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;(
>

I have just upgraded to Edgy and am still having the problem.  I even
tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg before upgrading to see if it
helped.

Ben

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