Hi,

I've just upgraded my workstation to Sandy Bridge (i5-2500k) with an integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 and I'd like to use it. Everything seems to work fine except that the popup-menus (displayed after right-click) are corrupted like this:



Any ideas what could be the problem? The effects are disabled.

AFAIK the intel driver is still WIP so this might be a problem in the driver, but I'm not willing to use the Nvidia card I've used before. So if there's any workaroud for this, that would be great.

does changing the rendering help:

Try on the cli:

dolphin -graphicssystem raster

There are 2 options apart from the default, raster and OpenGL which is experiemtal.

EDIT: just for completeness there is a kcm to change this globally
http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2010/09/ ... ystem-kcm/

Yes, the menus in dolphin are working fine with the "raster" graphics system. How to make this work for all apps? The KCM is available for 4.7 only and I still have 4.6. Do I have to recompile the whole KDE?

And according to the blogpost, some apps have problems with this. I'm not using kolourpaint (mentioned to have problems) but how many other apps might have problems with this?

to enable raster for all see the end of this post viewtopic.php?f=66&t=90821#p173062 it explains how to set it up at KDE start using a script file Note: Vortex375 says to place the script in ~/.kde4/env but your distro might use ~/.kde/env

there's probably other hints in the thread that might help

I've been using raster for quite a while now and personally haven't noticed any problems so far. I changed for speed improvements, before my nvidia nvs 160m (on dell e64000) had a horrible performance in kde, now it's barable.

Well, setting the QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM improved the situation. Some of the menus are still corrupted - e.g. "window properties" (displayed after Alt+F3) or the ksnapshot menus are still corrupted.

I guess I can live with that, but if there are any other ideas how to fix it that would be great.

UPDATE: I've switched from "oxygen" to "plastique" style and now everything works fine (none of the menus is corrupted).

TomasV: consider posting (or adding to) a bug report on http:/bugs.kde.org

If your problem has something to do with the kernel version, according to the article below the linux 3.0 kernel should have better support for Sandy Bridge. What is your kernel version btw? In two weeks I'm getting a Sandy Bridge laptop too

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... _sna&num=1

tomsdale wrote:If your problem has something to do with the kernel version, according to the article below the linux 3.0 kernel should have better support for Sandy Bridge. What is your kernel version btw? In two weeks I'm getting a Sandy Bridge laptop too

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... _sna&num=1

I'm not quite sure it's related to kernel version, I'd rather accuse xf86-video-intel driver. But I'll give it a try this week. Right now I'm running 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 so it's reasonably fresh.

google01103 wrote:TomasV: consider posting (or adding to) a bug report on http:/bugs.kde.org

OK, although I'm not quite sure what is the cause. I'll describe the problems I had and how I solved it.

UPDATE: OK, I've entered a bug here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278053

Reassigned the bug to the right category, so the developers of Oxygen see it...

I'm having the same problem, but I have an old nvidia GeForce MX4000.
It happened after X upgrade from 1.9.5 to 1.10.2.
I'm using gentoo, kde-4.6.4, kernel .38, nouveau driver.
Somebody at gentoo forums posted a topic with the same issue, he has an nvidia optimus video card and uses nvidia blob.
Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-88 ... ight-.html
Video: http://users.telenet.be/patrick_allaert/tmp/garbled.ogv