Small white dots appear and disappear

[Dallas Vanselow]

Hi Andy.

Thank you for the great presentation at Hamvention!

I tried your OS thru a USB stick and it seems to work smoothly on my old I7 machine with one exception: White dots keep appearing across the screen and then seem to disappear when I move the mouse and/or click in a window. I figured it may be a driver issue so I proceeded with the installation process. The installation went fine but it still does the white dot thing. I found a driver for my NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 on NVIDIA's website and I was about to install it but noticed something else. I tried to update the OS thru the terminal and it freezes towards the end of collecting data for "sudo apt-get update" and I have to hold in the power button to restart.

Do you think the video driver could be the issue or might there be something else going on?

73,

Dale KC8HQS

[Andy Stewart]

On 6/29/24 10:32AM, Dallas Vanselow wrote:

Hi Andy.

Thank you for the great presentation at Hamvention!

I tried your OS thru a USB stick and it seems to work smoothly on my old I7
machine with one exception: White dots keep appearing across the screen and
then seem to disappear when I move the mouse and/or click in a window. I
figured it may be a driver issue so I proceeded with the installation process.
The installation went fine but it still does the white dot thing. I found a
driver for my NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 on NVIDIA's website and I was about to
install it but noticed something else. I tried to update the OS thru the
terminal and it freezes towards the end of collecting data for "sudo apt-get
update" and I have to hold in the power button to restart.

Do you think the video driver could be the issue or might there be something
else going on?

73,

Dale KC8HQS

Hi Dale,

I'm suspicious of a hardware problem in your computer. Are you using an Open
Source driver or a proprietary driver for your video card?

73,

Andy

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Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ)

[Dallas Vanselow]

I haven't tried to install the video driver that I found on the NVIDIA website yet. I forgot to mention that I did set it up to dual boot with Windows 7, which works fine. Windows 7 also worked fine before Linux was there.