Linux gurus: any idea how to fix this? All images with gradients look like this. Latest nvidia driver installed by Mint 18.1.

I tried to google it, but I found nothing.

Okay, the compression here makes it less clear, but I get these circles instead of a smooth gradient.

Smoking at your desk are you ?
Looks smoggy

@krister-alm that's the ambient light from a weird angle.

@jckimble any idea?

Yeah sorry man although my username, no clue 😞

Install Windows lol.

@620hun @linuxxx https://askubuntu.com/questions/...

try that other than that make sure the depth is 24, I've had this problem with ati before so I had to go back to the default drivers. put if neither of these fix the problem put xorg.0.log and dmesg on a pastebin and put a link for me

@drRoss He wants to fix his laptop, not make it worse :P

@drRoss it's already installed in dual boot 😛

@620hun Sorry, the only way to reply to a windows troll is to troll back!

@jckimble Amazing, I changed dithering from auto to 6 and now it's perfect. Thanks!

For reference. This is after the fix

@620hun Damn!

Think you should use Nouveau drivers, idk. I know that NVIDIA + Linux isn't a good couple (unfortunately). And here is Linus with a message: https://youtu.be/iYWzMvlj2RQ

This is super useful to know for the future.

@tisaconundrum Not sure if sarcasm but if not, agreed!

Surely Mint has a decent screenshot tool eh?!

Glad it's fixed though!

@Iodine scrot works on all linux desktops

@Jop- huh, good point maybe. I'm curious if it does though. I'd think it would?

Yep, that's why I took a photo.

@620hun thx, ive the same problem and will try it out later :)

@Christian1998 open the nvidia settings, go to DFP-1, controls tab, then change the dithering depth to 6 bpc ;)

I was about to say enable dithering, but I see you already fixed it. Had that problem on my GTX 1060 laptop