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polson136

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 39

[SOLVED]: missing text

I have a problem where the bottom ~third of the screen does not render the text in certain programs, most notably Firefox, Thunderbird, and Libreoffice. (xterm is fine) Any sort of graphics - even the underline under the text - renders fine. I am able to highlight the text that isn't there, although it still does not show the actual text, it just changes the background color. I have a temporary fix where I just have a terminal window cover half the screen, and the program cover the other half, but I am getting tired of that. I have a Dell Inpiron 8600.

I have read that the nouveau driver does not work well, but the nvidia driver does. Currently I am running using the nouveau driver. If I try to load the nvidia driver:
# modprobe nvidia
ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

I have both nvidia and nvidia-utils installed.

I have screenshots I can post, but it is not readily obvious how to do that.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by polson136 (2012-06-12 15:34:33)

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED]: missing text

Have you set up the nvidia drivers as mentioned on the wiki page? just installing won't do.

I have screenshots I can post, but it is not readily obvious how to do that.

Use an image hosting site and then post thumbnails here.

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polson136

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED]: missing text

I uploaded a couple of screenshots here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80298310@N … 044606929/

polson136

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED]: missing text

I finally got it to work! My card is one of the ones that requires the nvidia-173xx driver in the AUR. It was a message in the kernel log that clued me in on that. As to why the nouveau driver had the effects it did, I will probably never know. A few other minor things randomly decided to break, but I will worry about that later. I am really happy that I can now use the whole screen.

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: [SOLVED]: missing text

Good to hear you managed to get it up and running.

Don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED].

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