Sudden unexplained "artifacts" surrounding cursor and icons on PowerMac G5

Two days ago this weird grid of dots and bars suddenly appeared on my cursor and surrounded all the icons on my desktop. Most fonts such as in Word don't seem to be affected, byt most non-letter graphics are. Games have patches of this grid in some areas. It follows my cursor around; it IS my cursor. This never happened to my older G4, which I still use. I've tried the settings and rebooting, but nothing works. What is this? Help!
Shazaka

One possibility is an overheating graphics card, check that its fan is running and the heat sink is stable and in proper contact with the core chip.

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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take up to a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A TextEdit window will open with the output. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
{ echo "Loaded system agents:"; sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; echo $'\n'"Login hook:"; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; echo $'\n'"Root cron tasks:"; sudo crontab -l; echo $'\n'"Log check:"; syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'; } 2> /dev/null | open -ef
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
You can then quit Terminal.
To prevent confusion, I'll repeat: When you type your password in the Terminal window, you won't see what you're typing.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
Important: If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of these commands, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
Remember, Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output as text, not as a screenshot.
Please post the contents of the TextEdit window, not the Terminal window.

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Thanks
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I thought I posted this already, but I'm not seeing it.
In the automation windows for channels, the surround paramaters that show up are radius, angle, and center. The manual makes a tiny mention of surround values in XY, but that's only mentioned under control surfaces.
Is there a way to do surround panning in logic with simple LR/front/back instead of their convoluted thing? Their option is almost unusable.

Hi.
OK,now I understand the question.
You want rubber band parameters in values of X and Y so you can draw in the angle and surround diversion(radius),by referencing X and Y values.Ok.
If you want a quick and dirty way to do this,you'll have to follow me into the dark underworld of the ENVIRONMENT LAYER...
You'll have to create a fake "joystick" kind of controller:
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If you need to use the mouse to position the track,Hook these faders up to an X/Y matrix object.This is to control,with your mouse pointer,the position in the x/y field,similar to the surround panner,but looking at your x/y values.
You'll need after that,to make two transformer filters that will turn your x/y data into Logic's angle,radius and LFE MIDI CC values.These values can be found if you hook up a Monitor object to any surround track,and fiddling the panner to get the MIDICCs for each parameter.I cannot remember what they are,as I don't normally use this method since version 4.8.
Hook THAT up to the track,and you're off to the movies!!!
IF you do not want to venture nto the environment world,then:
The parameters come up in the Track Automation as like with all the other possible automatable parameters in Logic.As long as the track is surround,you can manipulate those angles,radius and lfe thru the automation track,just like when you use the panning automation view.
You'll see them on top of the track as radius and angle.to me this would be the easier way of writing the automation instead of messing around with the surround panner or the environment workaround to see x/y values.
These parameters replace the normal stereo pan parameters in the automation view.
Cheers

5.1 surround snd and FCP

im putting together a FCP video presentation where i will need surround sound atleast 5.1. im working on FCP 4.5, which i believe is not capable of 5.1. therefore, does anyone have suggestions to achieve? is it possible to mix audio in Pro Tools and send back to FCP 4.5 for the surround audio? or what happens if i patch the finished non-5.1 DVD into a surround speaker system? will it just play through two stereo speakers and neglect the others?
thank you for any assistance you can provide.

< Most new surrounds sound receivers have an all channel stereo option >
But don't use this kind of rig for actual surround mixing. Only for reviewing mixes.
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Has anyone come up with a workaround or knows whether this is fixed in Air 3/ Flex 4.6?
Thanks,
Dan

Hi,
Thanks for posting and sorry for the slow reply.
Your suggestion will only make a difference on Android - iOS had this bug in 4.5.*, so reverting to the older skin will make no difference on this OS.
Adobe suggest not scrolling forms if you want to support iOS or use the new StageText features - the suggested workaround of wizard forms is unacceptable for my use case and a scrolling form is a common UI pattern on mobile, so I'm experimenting with the following:
1. Use CSS to apply the old TextInputSkin
2. I monitor the soft keyboard events and maintain a 'isKeyboardVisible' property in my views.
3. I register event handlers on the scroller viewport and set stage.focus to null if my keyboard is currently active and the user attempts to scroll.
This works and prevents the artifacts from showing through the UI, I just need to find the perfect events.. property change is no good, so I'm playing with mouse and touch events.
Regards,
Dan

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