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/ -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]