Re: Problem with Precise beta 1, unity-3d, and wine menus?

[Dan Kegel]

Thanks, Alexey!
- Dan

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Alexey Loukianov <mooroon2(a)mail.ru> wrote:
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> 13.03.2012 06:35, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > In all cases, I'm using the commercial nvidia drivers supplied by ubuntu
> > (for precise, version 295.20; for 11.10, version 280.13), so I'm not sure
> > if the problem is the new X, or the new drivers.
> >
> > Before I go reporting an ubuntu bug, or jamming newer drivers into my older
> > ubuntu system, has anybody else noticed this?
>
> Hello Dan,
>
> Chances are good you're hitting nVIDIA drivers bug: it had been reported on
> "official nVIDIA Linux support forum" (nvnews.net) that since around 295.17+
> there are a lot of corrupted rendering of UI elements, especially for Gtk2/3
> apps. For 295.20 there are several other bug reports available, both on nvnews
> forums and in Wine's Bugzilla, not directly related to "corrupted rendering"
> problem, but rather about unexpected crashes in apps which had been working
> good previously with the older driver version.
>
> As for me - since I had moved from 280.13 into using drivers 295.17 (had to
> skip all versions in-between due to various rendering bugs they had introduced
> when playing games under Wine) I had noticed some rendering issues in apps
> which use accelerated GPU rendering to do compositing (recent versions of
> Firefox and Thunderbird and Google Chrome). Tomorrow I'm going to give 295.20
> a test - there's bug report about "Rage" game crashing with this driver
> version under Linux/Wine I want to reproduce - and in case 295.20 would cause
> crashed and/or rendering bugs on my PC I'm going to revert back to 280.13 or
> to the latest driver from 275.x series.
>
> - --
> Best regards,
> Alexey Loukianov                          mailto:mooroon2(a)mail.ru
> System Engineer,                            Mob.:[phone]
> *nix Specialist
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