Aperture 3.0.3, odd visual artifacts?

Looks like a memory issue or something with the video card? Regardless, after upgrading to 3.0.3 I get to see these artifacts fairly often. At times they're rainbow-colored stripes, other times just black rectangles that randomly populate part of the image. Happens both in full-screen and regular mode. See screenshot:
http://www.materialized.com/temp/a303.jpg
Are there any solutions to this other than waiting for another update?

Hi,
There are many threads/posts on this forum dedicated to this very issue. This is related to a software incompatibility between Snow Leopard and some graphic cards (mainly ATI).
Try this - un-tick the crop adjustment, then tick it again. It worked for me. In most cases.
And provide feedback to Apple describing the issue. Hopefully they'll fix it someday.

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[ 1853.708] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
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A thumbnail of a screenshot is below. Should anyone require a higher resolution of the image, I will provide one on request. For the record, the mouse and some of the icons on the shell appear. The whole screen also flickers as if broken on mouse move.
All the best,
-HG
Last edited by HalosGhost (2012-09-02 20:31:30)

ConnorBehan wrote:Things to try: turning EXA / RenderAccel on and off, turning the Composite extension on and off, downgrading xorg-server or xf86-video-ati or whatever it was in the update that broke your display.
Connor, thank you for your reply. EXA is a no-go. If by RenderAccel, you mean AccelDFS, it's also a no-go (if not, I don't know what you're referring to). I am also not familiar with the Composite extension. As far as I'm aware neither the driver or the xorg server were in the update which preceded the issue.
As a final update, I managed to get GNOME into Fallback mode to see if that would help at all. Though it does display my background, which doesn't happen in standard mode anymore, the icons and shell are all still messed up. As I need my laptop to be in fairly functioning condition before Wednesday—and because I'm fairly sure this whole thing was due to a mistake I made somewhere along the way—I'm just going to do a clean install tonight.
Thanks for all the help as always folks. Have a good night!
All the best,
-HG

[SOLVED] rxvt-unicode 9.17 + tmux = visual artifacts on resize

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Can anyone reproduce and/or recommend a fix?
Reproduce:
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Actual:
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bangkok_manouel wrote:revert patch of guilty commit: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5180682
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