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Old 11-01-2013, 12:24 PM   #1
jdtiede
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Kubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 create garbled screens


Using MSI 7597 ver. 1 and 2 on separate computers. With 13.04 every time I installed it I got a repeated pattern on the screen as soon as it started KDE, as if it were out of sync. With 12.10, I sometimes get this, and sometimes all is good until it builds the taskbar, which appears in isolated chunks, totally unusable. I never had this problem up thru 12.10, which I can still install. What has changed about Kubuntu? How can I get around this problem?
 
Old 11-01-2013, 12:41 PM   #2
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That's different. One difference I have noticed is that desktop effects and compositing are active by default, though what you're describing sounds more like a bad resolution/driver.

EDIT: Sorry, the compositing and desktop effects being on by default started with 13.10, I think

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Old 01-25-2014, 11:37 AM   #3
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SOLVED! I got a new MSI mobo without built-in video. I added an Invidia Gforce card, the least expensive I could fing, and now I am using Kubuntu 13.10 with no video problems.
 
  


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