Last week, I indulged my fondness for Debian (-based distributions) and good
coffee with a wallpaper that combines the two:
http://www.wallpaperlinux.com/v/Debian/Debian+Cofee+Wallpaper+Linux+Debian+Morning+Desktop.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1
There are problems. The background is a (bright?) white. The area between the
two horizontal frame bars always deteriorates rapidly into colour splotches.I
have previously understood this to be an early sign of the pending death of my
graphics adapter.
I would be surprised if this image were over-taxing my graphics adapter, but
perhaps I am not judging well the requirements of modern DEs. This is the only
image I have run recently which gives this kind of problem.
I am running Kubuntu Karmic (9.10) Alpha on a Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM.
According to lshw, the graphics adapter is:
display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G70 [GeForce 7600 GS]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: p...@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 module=nvidia
Should I be talking to the vendor about the graphics card? The machine is still
under warranty.
Thanks in advance
Bruce
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Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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In the beginning... was the command line.
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