Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.16-1-686
Followup-For: Bug #282183
I am experiencing similar problems after doing a dist-upgrade today.
The problems severely affect the usability of most applications.
They do not affect the login prompt, instead the affects were noticed on:
- gnome-panel applications menu
Sometimes when I pull up a submenu, not all of menu item names are
displayed (instead you have white) but the space the occupied is there
and the icons are there. The missing items are on the lower portion
of the menu. Happens about 15% of the time a menu is displayed and
is more likely on longer submenus (which means takes longer to clear).
Mousing over the menu items (which causes them to be redrawn with and
without highlight, unhides the items.
- firefox/iceweasel
Very often when I load a page, most of the content in the window
is missing. If I do a google search on anything, for example,
some or usually all of the search results that appear are invisable,
except for the underlines (which I guess are drawn last). I can
repaint the missing text by scrolling or dragging a window over it.
Happens about 100% of the time when displaying google search results.
Sometimes, the page is painted then most of it is erased, except
for the underlines and the text for the first couple search results.
- Gcalctool
Buttons are drawn but text on the buttons is invisible.
text reappers if I drag cursor over the buttons.
- Kcalc
Buttons are drawn but text on most buttons is invisible.
Sometimes the text reappears on mouseover, sometimes it doesn't
First two items on menu bar invisable; mousing over the menu bar
erases text.
Pulldown menu text invisible, stays invisable.
- Kedit
menus unusable - they start invisable and stay invisable when you mouse
over.
menu bar text appears but is erased when moused over
- KHangMan
menu bar invisible, stays invisable
menu text invisible, stays invisible
- GnomeMeeting
menu bar ok
pulldown menus intermittently invisible but redrawn (except for greyedout
items) when you mouse over
emacs and terminal windows look ok. Filezilla looks ok, but I didn't do
much with it. Haven't tried much else, except some apps that start
with an empty window anyway. OpenOffice.org writer menus look ok but
the main window starts blank, anyway.
This appears to affect text, not images. And maybe only proportionally
spaced text. Menu bars, toolbars, and title bars seem unaffected, except
for Kde apps. Seems to affect gnome apps, kde apps, and apps which
appear to use neither. However, kde apps are rendered completely unusable.
more likely to affect the first draw than expose events or scrolling.
Looks suspiciously like a race condition between clear window and
display update which are occuring concurrently.
I tried to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run, the version of
the nvidia driver I used before, to fix the problem, but it could not
compile the kernel module because kernel and gcc were incompatible.
I accidently told it to go ahead in spite of the warning (stupid yes/no
questions instead of install/abort) and it failed to load the new module.
Surprisingly, X still started after that. Probably won't after next reboot.
Does this bug still exist in version 1.0.8756+1 of this package? [y|N|q|?]?
answered no because I wasn't sure what version was included but
strings /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
says 8762 which is newer and dpkg says the package version is 1.0.8756+1.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-2.6.16-1-686 depends on:
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1 NVIDIA binary kernel module common
Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-2.6.16-1-686 recommends:
ii linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 2.6.16-12 Linux kernel 2.6.16 image on PPro/
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