Well I just installed SL 5.6 off of the live CD on to a clean hd and the 
same thing happens. I can't install SL 6.0 off the live CD or the 
install DVD because it requires a pae kernel and the laptop does not 
have a pae cpu.

On 07/11/2011 09:03 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> 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
>