I switch to console, and when i switch back, my X looks totally weird, some sort of color bleeding and wrongness with lines, and icons have white pixels in them. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2. 6.3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-mat h" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-m ath" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ http:/ /ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.ne t/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm artswrappersuid avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd faad flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg libg++ lib www mad mikmod mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd thre ads truetype x86 xml xml2 xv zlib"
Created attachment 26141 [details] screenshot this is a screenshot showing the problem
i can't see anything wrong with your screenshot. but i think this is not a gnome problem.
The problem is on your card, that issue occurs whent you change from a plain vga16 screen to another screen of about 32/24 depth bits, common in desktop systems. You should try to adjust better sync ranges in your XF86Config file and also use a proper configuration of the Frame Buffer facilities of your kernel, you should find more information about this on [kernel_source]/Documentation/video/fb.txt . Happy hacking.
Sounds like a broken vga-adapter and/or driver. What kind of graphic adapter? Is this still a problem, or do you still have problems with current versions of Xorg?
Still a problem with 6.8.99.15 or modular X?