01:00.0 0300: 10de:042d (rev a1)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 360M (rev a1)
nvidia-180-kernel-source:
Installed: 180.11-0ubuntu1
None of the suggested workarounds helped avoid the damage bug. Loose
binding does not help. I see no difference at all between the 173, 177,
and 180 versions of the driver.
Of the applications I use, these three are affected:
1. (seldom) Firefox: damaged and non-damaged areas overlap and become
unreadable while scrolling with the mouse or with window scrollbars.
Paging with the keyboard works correctly.
Remedy: transfer focus to another window and back or click
anywhere on the window boroder.
Sometimes I can work for days without seeing it. But once it
starts happening (usually in one of many open firefox windows, it tends
to continue until I restart X11). But sometimes it can return to normal
without me consciously doing anything.
2. (often) Gimp: bits of paintbrush cursor hang on, leaving a messy
track.
Remedy: zoom in and out.
3. (almost always) xterm: typically, sending a large amount of text
(more than a few lines), leaves it with only the top part of the window
rendered correctly when the process completes; the bottom part remains
blank. Sometimes just one line will fail to render, as in the case of
'date'; it will look as if 'date' is still running, while in fact it
will have finished instantly. I can't get used to it: I often find
myself waiting for the commands to return because their output is not
visible.
Remedy: click into the window or transfer focus to it.
xterm had its own rendering bugs since about 1994, the most
obnoxious being the incorrect command line wrapping in wide windows; the
other prominent bug is falure to erase the old text on update. I
associate that (not knowing much about it) with the transition from
termcap to whatever other system we use today. If I recall correctly, I
first encountered it in the first RedHat release, and it hasn't been
fixed since then. I think it affects other readline-based terminals
besides xterm. This, combined with the compiz damage bug, makes xterm
close to unusable. But I can't make myself use anything else. I'm
getting old.
I see no ill effects reported by some users in the window decorations.
Nautilus always works fine (although I don't use it much). Have never
seen problems in emacs-gtk. Overall, I am not sure whether I'd rate this
problem as mild or severe; I think I have enough patience to carry on
like this, but I "severely" desire to have it fixed one day.
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Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904
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