Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/11/2013 17:10, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I spent a chunk of yesterday updating world on my machines (2 file >> servers and 1 netbook) and with some effort, the updates went through. I >> had to go out today so I rebooted my netbook and I started noticing >> weird graphical glitches in certain applications, as if parts of the >> screen weren't updating, namely in urxvt and emacs. In urxvt, my shell >> prompt seems to not render the cursor and often keeps the letters I >> remove still on the prompt (only graphically, they aren't actually >> there). This is extremely annoying. >> >> It's also terrible in emacs: cursor sometimes doesn't get rendered and I >> get tons of artefacts from different buffers when I switch or from text >> I was editing. You can find an example image of such glitches in emacs >> at [1]. This is absolutely tragic for me as I spend majority of my time >> in emacs. I'd like to note that I'm running emacs in a graphical frame >> and not in a terminal. > > A quick note to say that you are not alone, I get this as well since > about 6 weeks ago (a ~amd system). So it's not something you and just > you managed to do, I got it as well. > > In my case it's as if the system's idea of what is on the screen is off > by one row of pixels. I get a stray row of dots at the top of lines that > correspond to the risers of glyphs on the previous line, and new > underscores don't show up until I enter a newline. > > This is a mostly KDE system using konsole, so it's not the terminal > emulator or editor that's the root cause. >
Some may recall I have posted about similar issues in the past. Heck, I still do when I upgrade the drivers. I'm stuck using a older driver but still run into the issue every once in a while. The biggest giveaway for me is that my clock is stuck. I have mine set to show seconds and it either stops or the time sort of jumps several seconds at a time. It's weird but as Alan said, it is not just you. You got plenty of company on this one. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
