I'm using Mandriva Linux 2006 (RC2+) for AMD64 which has Xorg 6.9.0 from CVS dated 2005-09-15. My graphivs card is Nvidia Geforce 6800 AGP and I'm using the opensource nv driver. The problem is that it happens very often that windows and some other screen elements ot the whole display gets corrupted. I'll attach a screenshot of the problem. You can also see reports of other people with this bug here: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18663
Created attachment 3338 [details] Screenshot of the corruption
Oh I forgot to mention. The corruption goes away if I switch to another console like with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then back to Ctrl+alt+F7.
This is not only on AMD64 but also on i386 (see aforementioned Mandriva bug entry for more info, including log file). Also, the proprietary nvidia driver does not exhibit this problem.
I reported this not too long ago on Fedora Core's bugzilla, only to find it here a little while later: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169317
The problem is not x86_64 specific, but occurs on all architectures, and on GeForce 6200, 6600, and 6800 hardware, perhaps others as well. Here is our master bug for tracking this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=geforce-6x00
This should have been fixed on 2005-09-16 by Alan Coopersmith's port of Mark V.'s changes to XFree86. Marking a duplicate of bug 4480, which tracked that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4480 ***
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