Created attachment 17832 [details] my xorg.conf losing fonts in gnome-terminal and other font weirdnesses Using a NV86, nouveau/master, nouveau/drm/gallium and xserver 1.4.2. losing fonts in gnome-terminal and firefox adress bar after a while I used to have problem with fonts, but it was fixed with commit 022a9ed5c2657466dd2471a1b29d5e8bc92ca57a "nv50: no more sync in composite() :)". Now I'm observing that gnome-terminal is slightly loosing fonts over the time. Let me explain. At first, the display is all correct, but after a few hours, text is beginning to disappear. I noticed that the colored text is the more likely to disappear first. Selecting the text may help to see the characters. A new gnome-terminal opened (window not tab) does not have this problem, while the other remains "ill". I'm using gnome and the option "Composite" is enable in xorg.conf. I found out that running "xcompmgr" is 90% of the time fixing the problem. Another symptom: the Python TK interpreter, "idle" is all scrambled (screenshot to attach). In metacity windows, the titlebar sometimes goes like bold. It seems like the same text is written twice with a slight shift. I attach a screenshot as soon as it appears. In firefox, the text of the address bar is disappearing (or turning white?) when firefox is open for a while. Sometimes the text of the user interface (which is more or less a Gnome application thanks to integration) is turning white. It generally comes back by itself after a moment (or when redrawing the screen?).
Created attachment 17833 [details] the idle window is supposed to show some brief information and the python prompt
Created attachment 17834 [details] The terminal started to misbehave after a dozen of minutes
Created attachment 17835 [details] screen corruption while preparing the previous capture Notice the yellow and black stripes.
idle looks ok for me, but looks different than yours (i'll include a screenshot). What card do you have exactly?
Created attachment 17836 [details] a screenshot of idle
The commercial name is "8400M GS". "lspci -n" gives "01:00.0 0300: 10de:0427 (rev a1)".
$ sudo nvclock -i Xlib: extension "NV-CONTROL" missing on display ":0.0". -- General info -- Card: nVidia Geforce 8400M GS Architecture: G86 A2 PCI id: 0x427 GPU clock: 216.000 MHz Bustype: PCI-Express -- Shader info -- Clock: 432.000 MHz Stream units: 16 (1b) ROP units: 4 (1b) -- Memory info -- Amount: 128 MB Type: 128 bit DDR3 Clock: 351.000 MHz -- PCI-Express info -- Current Rate: 16X Maximum rate: 16X -- Sensor info -- Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor GPU temperature: 67C
herve@xiong:~ $ x11perf -aa10text x11perf - X11 performance program, version 1.2 The X.Org Foundation server version 10402000 on :0.0 from xiong Wed Jul 23 13:07:02 2008 Sync time adjustment is 0.0435 msecs. 320000 reps @ 0.0173 msec ( 57700.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter 10) 320000 reps @ 0.0174 msec ( 57600.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter 10) 320000 reps @ 0.0177 msec ( 56400.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter 10) 320000 reps @ 0.0175 msec ( 57300.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter 10) 320000 reps @ 0.0174 msec ( 57600.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter 10) 1600000 trep @ 0.0175 msec ( 57300.0/sec): Char in 80-char aa line (Charter 10)
Comment on attachment 17833 [details] the idle window is supposed to show some brief information and the python prompt Idle is fixed! I know have the same output as yours.
Comment on attachment 17835 [details] screen corruption while preparing the previous capture I've been playing with the gimp but couldn't be able to reproduce theses glitches.
Comment on attachment 17834 [details] The terminal started to misbehave after a dozen of minutes I think I don't experience these anymore. Though I'll reopen it in any case.
Created attachment 17881 [details] glyph corruption in a terminal Now the glyphs are affected. Generally a single one. Not always the same, in different applications like gnome-terminal or openoffice.org.
Created attachment 17882 [details] Example in OOo After reducing and restoring the window, the screen was repainted and the letter N was correct.
I close this bug fixed since this summer.
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