Video Problem

Hi, i just installed Mandriva linux on my old celeron 1.2ghz computer, i have checked the video options and they seem to be ok, the thing is i get all this crap all over the screen, i have posted a pic to better describe the problem.

As you can see on the top left, there are 3 icons then loads of like rectangle things, when i hold left click on the top bar of the windows on the right, and move that widnows around, i get all those like rectangle click things, also in the right windows you can see some icons over text, and they look inverted too, i dont understand whats causing this, maybe software corruption? or maybe video problem, but it all seems to be configured correct, and those 3 icons you see at the top left corner, to click on the icon i have to click on there name which is actually in the right of the screen were you cant see becouse it has been covered by the control center.

 

Firstly, what video card do you have?

Secondy, can you post the output of the following command:

Code:

glxinfo

And finally, can you post all of the text in the file:

Code:

kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf

 

how do i output the glxinfo command?

 

Open up a terminal and type 'glxinfo' (no quotes, of course) at the prompt and hit the enter key, then copy the output & paste it to a forum window.

Roughly, the same thing applies when you type 'kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf' in a terminal window, but in this case, 'Kate' will open up its own window and you can copy and paste from there.

 

i could very easily be wrong but it looks like mandriva´s busy, any HDD activity, just try waiting while mandriva catches up with itself

 

i think your wrong becouse it was like that for hours, umm but it doesent matter bout that anymore, i installed mandriva on my pentium 4 rig, now before mandriva either gets to booting, i have this error message that says, Kernel panic - not syncing:No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel., whats happened now? can this be fixed withought having to install Mandriva again?
I did put my hard drive on my subwoofer today, and it said in the sub box to not have any electrical equipment within a metre of the sub, could i have damaged it?

 

No, Linux never does stuff like that unless there's something wrong with either your graphics driver or your video card itself.

 

its solved now, its becouse i was using a crap computer, anyway i have a worse problem than before^