Package: libcairo2 Version: 1.8.10-6 Severity: important The latest libcairo2 in unstable (Version: 1.10.2-4) in combination with the latest NVidia drivers (the entire 260.x.x series as well as the beta 270.x series of drivers) makes the desktop environment (the latest GNOME in unstable) very slow and unresponsive - for example if i minimize Rhythmbox and then i maximize the window again, the window appears blank and it takes several seconds for the content of the window to be drawn. Also i hear strange noises from my computer (like in heavy hard disk activity) and whenever i do any sort of window management (like resizing windows, maximizing or minimizing, etc.), the CP usage goes as high as 50%.
Initialy i thought that the problem was with the NVidia drivers (and i was forced to update to the latest version of them, because the older 195.x.x and 256.x.x series don't support xserver 1.9 which is now i unstable) however i found out that downgrading libcairo2 to the version in testing (Version: 1.8.10-6) solved the problem. My system is Debian Unstable, kernel 2.6.37-2-amd64, GNOME, NVidia driver 270.29 (i've also tried all of the 260.x.x series of drivers) on a Thinkpad T61 laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, NVidia Quadro nvs 140m and 4GB RAM. To reproduce the bug - install latest libcairo2 from unstable and any of the 260.x.x series of the NVidia drivers To solve - downgrade libcairo2 to the version from testing - Version: 1.8.10-6 Best regards, Alexander Godumov -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=bg_BG.utf8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libcairo2 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libpixman-1-0 0.21.4-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime ii libx11-6 2:1.4.1-5 X11 client-side library ii libxcb-render-util0 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-render0 1.7-2 X C Binding, render extension ii libxcb1 1.7-2 X C Binding ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime libcairo2 recommends no packages. libcairo2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
