#1 2016-12-14 10:33:25

freistil

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Registered: 2016-12-14

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New Installation - Desktop is "jittered"

Hey folks,

a couple of years back I was a very happy #! user and after some time I wanted to revive my old secondary laptop with Bunsen.

My hardware: a IBM Thinkpad T23  (1.13-GHz Pentium III, 1024 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, 1024x768).

I remember it worked quite well with #!, besides some graphical errors in browsers and on conky.
However, after a clean install of the i686-iso and boot up, I can see the login screen and type in my credentials, but after that I just see.. a grey background (doesn't look like an image) and some "mess" where conky and tint2 should be. If I right-click for the menu, I see the same mess (like colored static noise?), however, after I click somewhere else, I see part of the default background picture. Confusing.

What could this be?

photonucleon

Thursday

From: out of that impossible sky

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 299

Re: New Installation - Desktop is "jittered"

Have you tried with an external monitor to see if the problem occurs there? Can you open any programs, and are they also "jittered"? Also, does this problem occur with a different Linux distro?

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Horizon_Brave

Operating System: Linux-Nettrix

Registered: 2015-10-18

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Re: New Installation - Desktop is "jittered"

Hardware acceleration issue with Openbox perhaps?  Is the "jitter" limited to the openbox? does it appear in any other programs?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: New Installation - Desktop is "jittered"

Hardware acceleration issue with Openbox perhaps?

Openbox doesn't use hardware acceleration, it renders in software only.

My guess would be SNA issues but I think we need to see an answer to photonucleon's questions.

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ohnonot

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

Re: New Installation - Desktop is "jittered"

in addition:
- can you switch to a non-graphical tty (e.g. with ctrl+alt+f2), and is it ok there?
- what is the output of

lspci -k | grep -A5 VGA

o9000

tint2 developer

From: Network Neighborhood

Registered: 2015-10-24

Posts: 417

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Re: New Installation - Desktop is "jittered"

Hardware acceleration issue with Openbox perhaps?  Is the "jitter" limited to the openbox? does it appear in any other programs?

Looks like that system uses a Savage video card, for which something is broken in X. I could find some solutions for Arch, I think they could be adapted for BL but I'm not sure about the details.