On Saturday 07 November 2009 10:06:21 am Lew Wolfgang wrote:
upscope wrote:
On Friday 06 November 2009 07:27:59 pm Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I've been observing a failure of 11.1 to clear the video buffer on various NVIDIA boards when using the proprietary driver. I first noticed this with 11.1, with various versions of NVIDIA's drivers. The problem appears during the login process when bits and pieces of previous images flash on the screen. This is certainly annoying and is embarrassing to have to explain this behavior to customers. Further, it's a security issue since username/password information might be compromised.
I'm thinking it must be an issue with the X server on 11.1 and really hope it doesn't resurface with 11.2. Anyone else notice it?
I used to see this on 11.1 and 11.2 thru RC1. Look at
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/SUSE/suse.xml
make sure line five(5) reads as follows:
<item type="pixmap" id="background" background="true">
What I was seeing, after installing the Nvidia driver something was deleting the background="true" from the line. This caused either a checkerboard or various pieces of the previous desktop to appear at various times during boot.
I am now on 11.2 RC2 with the latest Nvidia driver: NVIDIA-Linux- x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run. Problem has not re-occurred.
Whoot! That was it! Good catch!
Not only that, but I found the background graphic (Background.jpg) for the login screen! I've needed to present users with a legal login warning, before they logged in, for a long time now. Windoze can do this. Ssh can present a message before login, but it appears only on ssh connections of course. I can annotate this rather ugly low-res jpg with my text, or come up with a nicer background.
Thanks for the pointer, Upscope!
Regards, Lew
Glad I could help, but the credit goes to the forum I found it on. Cannot remember which one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org