I have a weird issue.

The text in GTK or Qt3 apps is not displayed. (Except for Firefox)



I only happens when I enable desktop effects.

I have a Geforce 4 GO 440, 96.43.09 nvidia driver on Kubuntu Intrepid

EDIT : This is a nvidia beta driver bug, I had my answer.

For those of you still with problems, apparently according to here Nvidia beta 180.08 update makes things much better.

bcooksley wrote:For those of you still with problems, apparently according to here Nvidia beta 180.08 update makes things much better.

YES!

Thins are REALLY much better.

This is a MUST update.

Woohoo! Nvidia-drivers update (keyworded) on Gentoo make a difference. Not as mind-blastingly fast as I would've hoped, but perhaps that's because KWin isn't as optimised as the Compiz-Fusions that I'm used to.

I have some problems with fonts in several application, but I can confim that performance is much better with 180.08 beta on intrepid. Tray loks goog, but only with desctop effects disabled.

neversfelde wrote:I have some problems with fonts in several application, but I can confim that performance is much better with 180.08 beta on intrepid. Tray loks goog, but only with desctop effects disabled.

There appears to be a known font corruption problem with the 180.08 beta
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... ?p=1852889

google01103 wrote:There appears to be a known font corruption problem with the 180.08 beta
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... ?p=1852889

Thank you for that information, i'll try the workaround recommended in that thread.

I still have a visual glitches problem with tray (compiled from SVN on Saturday). There is still problem with icons background. When kopepe new message is recaived then the iscon animation is somehow drawn over the normal "bubble" icon. Anyone ale has this problem? Is it an NVidia problem?

I am using NVidia driver 177.80 on 7600GS card. But the is no difference with tray behaviour using 180.08.

KejPi wrote:I still have a visual glitches problem with tray (compiled from SVN on Saturday).

I am using xinerama and so desctop effects are turned off. Probably tray looks better without effects?

neversfelde wrote:

KejPi wrote:I still have a visual glitches problem with tray (compiled from SVN on Saturday).

I am using xinerama and so desctop effects are turned off. Probably tray looks better without effects?

Yes, it looks better but still not perfect.

KejPi wrote:Yes, it looks better but still not perfect.

Did you try 180.08 without effects? looks nearly perfect here after starting all apps.

neversfelde wrote:

KejPi wrote:Yes, it looks better but still not perfect.

Did you try 180.08 without effects? looks nearly perfect here after starting all apps.

No I didn't. I'll try this week and maybe post some screenshots.

I found out that switching to XAA rendering solves some of the problems. I have two computers, one with a 945GM and other with a 965GM onboard. Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to find this section:

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Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

And add a line to it to make it look like this:

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Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

Save the file and reboot.

neversfelde wrote:

KejPi wrote:Yes, it looks better but still not perfect.

Did you try 180.08 without effects? looks nearly perfect here after starting all apps.

Driver 177.80 with composite when all application started:


Driver 177.80 with composite after twice clicking on arrow:


Driver 180.08 no composite:


Driver 180.08 composite when kopete message arrives:


As you can see there are some problems after startup when there is someting hidden there (in my case kwallet) but it is probably not problem of graphic card driver. But there is a problem with icons drawing - it is better for 180.08 but still kopete message animation does not work with enebled effects. Without effects and 180.08 it is almost perfect.

New NVidia beta driver 180.11 has been released. Hopefully it will fix something

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... ?p=1861825