tainted display -

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:13:53 -0800
Evuraan <evuraan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please see screenshot, my display retains a section from an youtube
> video played hours ago, and displays it on dark pixels. I call it
> tainted display, as I don't know what else to call it,
> 
> http://evuraan.info/screenshots/images/tainted.png
> 
> I've seen this before once at least; a reboot, or restart of X did
> clear it.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? What causes this? Any idea how I can clear
> it w/o having to restart X or a reboot?
> 
> thanks!
> 
Compiz?  Sometimes mine leaves artifacts.  Switching screens removes
them for me.
> 
> Other specifics:
> 
> (1)
> Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  304.64  Tue
> Oct 30 11:33:40 PDT 2012
> 
> (2)
> ii  flashplugin-installer
> 11.2.202.258ubuntu0.10.04.1                           Adobe Flash
> Player plugin installer
> ii  flashplugin-nonfree
> 11.2.202.258ubuntu0.10.04.1                           Adobe Flash
> Player plugin installer
> 
> (3)
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce
> 8400 GS] (rev a1)
> 
> (4)
> Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
> 
> (5)
> 2.6.32-40-generic
> 
> (6)
> HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
> axis) 597mm x 336mm




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