? wierd box thing???

[cody1233]

alright...im running gnome (whatever comes in karmic) and when i log on, i get this box that pops up in the upper right corner...it has small dots in it, but it's black and it doesn't say anything...

I appreciate your future help!

[devondashla]

alright...im running gnome (whatever comes in karmic) and when i log on, i get this box that pops up in the upper right corner...it has small dots in it, but it's black and it doesn't say anything...

I appreciate your future help!

may we have a picture?

[cody1233]

right here

[mcduck]

Based on shape & location, that looks like a notification window, which is for some reason or other acting rather bad. Most likely because of it's use of transparency, which would point to graphics card/driver related problem.

What graphics card you have, and if it's a recently new AMD/nVidia card have you installed the drivers for it?

(in case you were wondering, the message in that window is most likely the Network Manager telling you that it has connected to a network)

[cody1233]

alrite...cool...but my graphics card is really super old...how do i find out what it is to download drivers?

[73ckn797]

alrite...cool...but my graphics card is really super old...how do i find out what it is to download drivers?

Enter this in a terminal and post the results. It will tell you the video card information

lspci | grep VGA

[cody1233]

cody@cody-laptop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
cody@cody-laptop:~$

[73ckn797]

Did you look in System/Administration/Hardware Drivers and install the recommended driver, if any?

[cody1233]

no recommended drivers...