I get psychedelic colors while using MandrivaLE2005

Altheastronut · 08-30-2005, 10:23 AM

I've been having this problem happen ever so often when I'm in KDE and I'm surfing the net. Things start changing colors to the point where things go blank and if I highlight them text appears where buttons would be. Usually I can right click on the desktop and get to configure Desktop and change the screen size click ok and reject the new settings and everything will go back to normal. I have an Albatron PC6600/128 the GPU is a 6600, hardrake sees it as a Geforce NX 6600. What can I do to stop the psychedelic colors?

mimithebrain · 08-31-2005, 12:00 PM

Does you monitor work normally under windows?

Does it do that same thing under GNOME? (it shouldn't)

Altheastronut · 08-31-2005, 12:21 PM

I do not experience the same thing under windows, and yes I do have the same thing happend in GNOME, and BlackBox. I haven't quiet figured out what sets it off, but it definitely happens multiple times in the day. Sometimes I can't fix it during a session and I have to resort to log off. Is it something with the preloaded drivers and my video card just isn't supported as well or something?

mimithebrain · 08-31-2005, 01:24 PM

It might be the support in linux... Have you tried googling around and see what it brings up?

Altheastronut · 08-31-2005, 01:57 PM

I've tried looking around and have only found threads of people thinking of buying a similar card, someone having trouble in Fedora with another card, and some french sites I can't read.

mimithebrain · 09-01-2005, 05:09 PM

babelfish.altavista.com for the french sites

post them here, for the fun of it, some people are multilingual in this forum.

mimithebrain · 09-03-2005, 03:02 PM

My linux friend has a similar problem. He needs to bend the monitor cable in order to have proper colors.

Besides that, I still have no idea what could cause this problem.

Altheastronut · 09-13-2005, 01:00 AM

I looked at those french sites and it didn't have anything to do really with my problem. It's not a hardware issue because when I'm in windows I never have the problem, it's only when I'm in linux, and it's solvable with multiple changes of resolution. It gets annoying though when things start changing colors and I have to keep changing the resolution to fix the problem.

mimithebrain · 09-13-2005, 02:11 PM

Maybe it's a driver problem.

You are getting closer though.