All kinds of weird graphical issues

Out of the blue I've had all kinds of weird graphical glitches happening on my macbook.
-The check-mark that shows what network I'm using under the airport menu bar is upside-down
-The spotlight menu background is now light gray instead of blue
-Some icons for applications I'm running on the dock keep growing bigger, cutting off the image
-Some buttons have graphical glitches when clicked on
-The r/y/g buttons at the top left of windows have a sharp top-right corner
I'm sure there's more stuff happening with all this going crazy, but that's what I've noticed so far. I'd post pictures here if I could.
Any ideas?

I would run the AHT "Apple Hardware Test". It is included with your system restore discs. There could be graphics chip errors (voltage etc) or it could be software based. I am betting it is SW based as I have had this issue before with hard corners on the windows and general graphic anomalies.
Also try booting to MAC OS on your machine from different source. Disc or Hard Disk.
Failing all that I think I fixed my issue a few years ago with an Archive and Install. It will replace your System Folder but keep all your user data. Then patch with the combo update to 10.6.6.

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I have been on the phone with technical service twice ( both as helpful as they could be) and took the computer into the apple store to have the hardware checked out. All of the hardware checked out. They installed Lion in place which is useless to our family as the last backup was done under Mtn. Lion in safe mode. I reinstalled everthing from the backup and can work from safe mode but this has its obvious disadvantages.
What happens is when (if I get this far) I log in, the desktop graphics go "crazy" and eventually the computer locks up. I have reinstalled Mtn. Lion numerous times with no improvement to the situation. I post this out of frustration and hoped for answers. That $20 download is not worth the cost of the loss of use of the Office programs, the Adobe programs not to mention photos, teaching documents, scouting documents, family documents, music, that are all somewhat in limbo because of this mess.
As a long time Apple product user I have not come to expect this kind of problem from Apple products. I have not been advised of how I will know when a "fix" has been arrived at leaving me further in the dark and discouraged. School is starting up on Monday and this computer gets a lot of use from both a teacher and a High School student.
Apple, you said that our particular model was compatible with Mtn. Lion. It has been checked out at the local Apple store and everything found to be OK. Our backup is under Mtn. Lion (running in Safe Mode). We have no way to go back to Snow Leopard to retrieve and run all of our previous programs. So Apple, the ball is 100% in your court. When are we going to have the solution?

Well I believe I was able to clear those two programs out. I still had the dmg files with each having an uninstall. VirtualBox was a clean uninstall and while the Palm SDK would seem to be gone it was not as clean an uninstall, having repeated it several times.
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Macintosh-2:~ MMLyonsHome$ ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta} * L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
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AEProfiling.framework
AERegistration.framework
AudioMixEngine.framework
HPDeviceModel.framework
HPPml.framework
HPSMART.framework
HPServicesInterface.framework
HPSmartPrint.framework
HPSmartX.framework
NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
PluginManager.framework
TSLicense.framework
iLifeFaceRecognition.framework
iLifeKit.framework
iLifePageLayout.framework
iLifeSQLAccess.framework
iLifeSlideshow.framework
iTunesLibrary.framework
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/Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
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Flash Player.plugin
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com.hp.devicemonitor.plist
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com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist
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Flash Player.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
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GBQLGenerator.qlgenerator
iBooksAuthor.qlgenerator
iWork.qlgenerator
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AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
FLV.component
Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
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[SOLVED] weird graphics issue on KDE

look what is this
what is going on here
everything else works fine (posting from chromium right now)
i figure it might be a driver issue
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so i installed extra/xf86-video-intel 2.17.0-2 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed] X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
are there alternative open source drivers, or should i try setting up proprietary drivers somehow
or maybe this isnt even a driver issue?
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Last edited by alchemator (2012-02-24 04:40:18)

There are no proprietary drivers for intel, there's just what you have installed. There's one problem though - 8xx cards aren't supported anymore. You're lucky you get any picture at all. But for proper functioning you'll have to either go without 3d acceleration, or possibly without any acceleration at all (except xv overlay for video playback).
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Identifier "old intel stuff"
Driver "intel"
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EndSection
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Section "Device"
Identifier "old intel stuff"
Driver "intel"
Option "ShadowFB" "on"
EndSection

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Last edited by dcc24 (2010-07-25 18:40:54)

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http://img696.imageshack.us/i/imagecmx.jpg/
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Leylifer,
You may have to restore your device. This should solve that. If you have not synced your phone lately you will lose all your information since your last sync. You may try resetting first which is holding down both buttons for at least 10 seconds. (Until it shuts of and turns back on with out letting go)
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Model Identifier:    MacBookPro8,3
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Number of Processors:    1
Total Number of Cores:    4
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L3 Cache:    6 MB
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Since the issue seems to only be occuring during graphics intensive tasks (Photoshop, games), it may be a good first step to check for any potential hardware issues involving the discrete GPU. You may find the following article helpful:
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Regards,
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After having my computer for a few years, it started getting an artifact around the mouse, and when it did that, everything was frozen, key commands didn't work, and I would have to manually shut it down.
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Ok, you are right, maybe I don't know it for a fact . . . but from all the things I read in various forums, there was a batch (or something similar) of macs (the exact kind I have) that did have too much glue on some parts, and it caused all sorts of problems for different people, most of those problems being with the graphics card. Apparently the excess glue overheats and leaks out of where it's supposed to stay, and whatever it has the misfortune of getting on goes to pot.
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