On Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:44:12 Mike Chalmers wrote: > On 7/16/08, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 July 2008 17:08:58 Mike Chalmers wrote: > > > I do not have a video driver installed. I have Googled how to disable > > > desktop effects and haven't found anything really useful. > > > > *Something* helps your video chips to talk to your monitor :-) I wasn't > > referring to proprietary drivers. I'm not on that box at the moment, so > > I can't check which package it was. I'll try to find it among my mail. > > > > > Does anyone know a command that I can use from init 3 to disable > > > desktop effects? > > > > I don't think you ever made it clear whether we are talking about kde or > > gnome, compiz or kde4 desktop effects. > > > > > > Anne > > > > -- > > Thank you for the help Anne. I am talking about KDE 4. The only video > driver I have installed is the one that came with Fedora 9. Ditto. However, just about a week ago a routine update installed xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386. This is the package that is suspected of being the cause of the problem. Do you have that one? Desktop effects - try System Settings > Desktop and uncheck 'Enable desktop effects'. These are not compiz-type effects, but things you can easily live without until things get fixed. HTH Anne
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