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  • Topcat
    The Boss Stooge
    • Oct 2003
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    #1

    Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

    I've been diddling around with Mint 19.1 Cinnamon...and have gotten a strange artifact issue.



    It's being pretty mild there, many times its rendering windows illegible.

    System specs are
    X8DAL motherboard w 2x Westmere CPU's
    24gb RAM
    Quadro FX5800 4gb

    I thought at first the GPU was simply bad, so I swapped it for another (I have several of these), result was the same. I then booted it into Windows 7, everything is hunky dory within Windows, but FUBAR with linux....I know, go figure....but its a bit annoying.
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  • CapLeaker
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    • Dec 2014
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    #2
    Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

    I've got the same thing once in a while only on one computer. It isn't there all the time on mine. On my laptop it works fine as kind for some reason.
    The computer that has the same artifact is a ASUS Maximus VIII, Intel 6600k, 16GB Ram, SSD and a Nvidia 1050, dual screen setup. It happens on my second screen, while I scroll something on my first screen.

    The Asus laptop which Mint works fine on is a 4770K, 20GB Ram, SSD, Nvidia 860m.
    What gives?!

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    • stj
      Great Sage 齊天大聖
      • Dec 2009
      • 30963
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      #3
      Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

      who's driver, Nvidia, or the open-source one?

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      • CapLeaker
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        • Dec 2014
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        #4
        Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

        Nvidia drivers on mine.

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        • Topcat
          The Boss Stooge
          • Oct 2003
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          #5
          Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

          It's whatever came with Mint. I haven't tried others <yet>....Hard to imagine an embedded driver for such an old card being buggy.....but I guess there's a reason it's 'free'.
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          • CapLeaker
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            #6
            Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

            probably the open source driver.

            the last update from Manjaro killed the USB 3 port on my other lappy. Ugh!

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            • stj
              Great Sage 齊天大聖
              • Dec 2009
              • 30963
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              #7
              Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

              usb3 uses a microcontroller for speed,
              they need firmware.

              same as the nvidia problem, most distro's cant/wont include 3rd party binary's in the iso's - you have to add them after install.

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              • Topcat
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                Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

                I'll try the nvidia driver and see what that does...
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                • CapLeaker
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                  #9
                  Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

                  NVIDIA driver didn't help me any...

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                  • Topcat
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                    #10
                    Re: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Artifact issue

                    In 'driver manager', I switched it from the default open source driver to nvidia driver 340.107, that seems to have got it....but I'll diddle around with it some more before I call it cured.
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