[PD] Purple/Green Flickering With GEM

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I don't know the details, but I remember hearing its related to buggy  
video card drivers.  Things that work fine on some cards cause this on  
others.  Check the archives for details, I think there are also a bug  
report that migh tbe related, if so, you should add your details there:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1839973&group_id=64325&atid=507079

.hc

On Mar 26, 2009, at 11:39 PM, james murray wrote:

> Common? Really?  Is there any sort of good explanation for this?   
> After testing it for a few hours it's definitely only occurring  
> after I select restart and never happening when I shut the computer  
> down and then restart manually.... I guess I'm curious about why  
> this would be happening, and is there anything out there more  
> informative than the pd forums for snafus like this?  I spent a good  
> chunk of my day trying to find different ways to describe the error  
> but could get no useful search results in there...
>
> Thanks so much for the input Hans-Christoph, it's really  
> appreciated, I'll give the workaround you suggested a shot in the  
> morning and see what happens.
>
> J
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> Yeah, its pretty common.  If you are using [pix_movie], try using:
>
> [pix_film]
> |
> [pix_texture]
>
> .hc
>
> On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:18 PM, chris clepper wrote:
>
>> Need some more info:
>>
>> Video card model, what the piece uses in GEM, does any other app  
>> have problems?  Maybe post a pic or video of the screens too.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, james murray <james.n.murray at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>> Hello List....
>>
>> I've got a two screen GEM piece running on Plasma displays that has  
>> recently started to, on reboot, begin flickering the GEM screen in  
>> a neon purple/green mode.  I'm wondering about whether the video  
>> card in my G5 tower is on the way out, and as a result, this glitch  
>> is occurring... It seems more prone to enter into this green/purple  
>> rave when the computer reboots, and less/never has occurred if we  
>> do a hard shutdown followed by startup.  Any ideas? Confirmations?  
>> Counter-arguments... this is a new one for me, and insight would be  
>> grand.
>>
>> J
>>
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