On 07/10/2011 06:18 PM, Brad wrote:
> The problem I have is when I boot the live CD to the point of login I switch to terminal and install compiz, at this
> point every thing works fine. Now I login to the desktop and every thing is fine. I change the desktop effects to enable
> them and this is where the screen gets messed up see post (http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=642) to
> see a picture. If I change the desktop effects and then try to go back I get that black section to the right and can not
> get ride of it till I reboot the system. The reason I want to change to SL is the LTS, plus it's very close to RHEL and
> I want to study RHEL.
>
> I have Fedora 14 installed on this laptop and every thing works just fine, but seeing how Fedora has changed their
> desktop to Gnome3/Shell and the support is going to run out soon I want to change to SL. On a side note this laptop
> (Toshiba Satellite M35X) spec here
> (http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-satellite-m35x-s163/4507-3121_7-31322069.html) will not run any Ubuntu above
> 9.04 nor will it run any openSUSE above 11.1.
>
> It's not a real big deal to have desktop effects turned on but I have in the past shown it to some people and they have
> said I want that so then I tell them how to get it, or help them get it. I know that servers don't run compiz but it is
> nice to have when you want it.
>
> I have noticed some deference between compiz version in the named distos.
> Scientific Linux 6.0 compiz 0.8.2 (wont run)
> Scientific Linux 5.6 compiz 0.0.13 (wont run)
> Ubuntu 9.04 compiz 0.8.2 (will run)
> Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 compiz 0.8.4 (wont run)
> openSUSE 11.1 compiz 0.7.8 (will run)
> Fedora 14 compiz 0.8.6 (will run)
>
> I'm not the best at Linux but I can get my way around some what, and there is still a lot for me to learn. I also know
> that Linux has had problems with the Intel 855GME chip set driving the video.
>
> Is there any way you could tell how to fix this, or is there a patch some where, I really would like to have SL on this
> laptop.
>
> Thanks for all your help.

There is a very small chance (although I don't think so) that your problem only happens with the LiveCD. Could you try 
to install SL6 on your notebook using the installation DVD?

	Urs