Black at Bottom of Screen

[bob_mendon]

I don't know what I did, but I must of installed something my system doesn't like. The bottom of the screen is totally black for about the first eigth of the screen. Also when I open a box it is all black except for the check boxes etc. Since I only know enough about Kubuntu to be dangerous, I'm hoping somebody can give me a hint as to what I may have done or how to fix the problem. I have installed compiz-fusion so maybe that is part of the problem although nothing changed after an uninstall and reboot.

[bob_mendon]

Re: Black at Bottom of Screen

I have narrowed down the issue as being related to compiz and avant-window-navigator. I did a clean install and added the componets that I added previously until I got the same effect. With AVN open, the black bar shows up. I am currently using compiz-fusion. If I do a compiz --replace, the screen refreshes and displays coreectly and then at some point, the compiz manager or what ever controls compiz seems to fail and the black band is back. Any ideas?

[dibl]

Re: Black at Bottom of Screen

Sounds like a fight between compiz and the driver for your video card.

[bob_mendon]

Re: Black at Bottom of Screen

I am currently using nvidia drivers as instally through Envy. I'm using Envy because it's easier to set up dualview with it rather than editing the xorg.conf to death. I have seen reports of this same problem elsewhere but have yet to find a solution. I'm begining to believe that the issue is with avn and using it in a KDE environment since it has a lot of gnome dependencies.

[dibl]

Re: Black at Bottom of Screen

Hmmmm -- yes, maybe it's a fight between AVN and KDE, or between AVN and compiz. Blacking out part of the screen is a pretty fundamental incompatibility of some kind.