walt wrote: > On 11/21/2013 01:38 PM, Dale wrote: >> 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. > One other possibility is that xorg updated something that broke some > video drivers. Maybe "qlop -l xorg" would give you a hint about when > your video problem first appeared? > > > >
In my case, it is the video drivers. On another thread, someone else has ran into a similar issue. Also, I am one of those that does a emerge -e world when in doubt. Sometimes that works. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
