From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 10:25:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CBD16A402 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEE643D45 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.24]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IXL00DKCUADD390@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:25:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IXL00M7GUAD8BD0@pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:25:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IXL0079NUADVF00@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:25:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:25:22 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <443C883C.7010306@cruzinternet.com> To: Jeff Molofee Message-id: <443CD592.6070006@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20060411120046.DD53D16A4FC@hub.freebsd.org> <443C883C.7010306@cruzinternet.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Noise On Screen X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:25:26 -0000 Jeff Molofee wrote: > If I enable cups or webmin, I get a small line of random graphics across > the top of my screen. The line does not affect the system stability, but > it's extremely annoying. It takes up anywhere from 10 to 20 lines of my > display, and displays random colors from red, green, blue to purples and > yellows. > [...] > Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? I don't mind not > having webmin, but cups is fairly important. I see the same thing when I switch between ttyv0 (text mode) and ttyv8 (X11), but it goes away when the afflicted windows are redrawn. While you're running cups, could you switch through consoles ttyv0 -- ttyv7 and see if there's anything similarly garbaged on them? Colin Percival