I am having a problem with displaying graphics. It seems to mainly pop up when I have 3-4 web browser windows open(doesn't matter which browser...Netscape, Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera....). What happens is that instead of loading the picture as normal, it takes a piece of the graphic about 1/10 the origianl and copies it for the whole picture. What I end up with is a bunch of strips of the same thing instead of the whole picture. Occasionally, if I start switching through the desktops real fast, the background image will do the same thing. Though after time(5 minutes), the background image will fix itself. What is going on? I have a GeForce2 GTS vid card. I am running with the Nvidia 1.0-2313 drivers. I took a look at XF86Config and it looks like everything is configured correctly. But since I am real new at this, I could be wrong.

Well I am going to doubt it is your XF86Config or the nvidia drives, especially since I have a similar video card with those drivers that works just fine. It could be a matter of too much stuff for X to render properly or something like that.

You might want to try and cut down on useless background tasks. Mandrake 8.1 runs a lot of them.

This may sound simplistic, but how do I find out what is running in the background under Linux? I have only been playing with Linux for about a month now.

you can find out what background processes are running with

ps -ef

at the command line. there's probably a lot of getty or nscd-type extra processes running.

How do I know which processes are really needed?

Hi all,

In my lab we are having about 7 red hat 7.2 enigmas. We like tux racer game. The problem is except for two machines all others don't show fast moving graphics although all are of same pentium 3 (4 PCs) and AMD athlon
(3 PCs). how do I find what is different in the machines and do then ?

Paithankar

The slow ones might not be doing hardware acceleration.