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cosborn72

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Registered: 2011-05-17

Posts: 2

screen rendering issues in Gnome 3

Hello,

I'm having a problem in Gnome 3 that I would like some feedback on (even if it is only "file a bug").

I installed Gnome 3 on my computer.  I have a Geforce 8200GS video card, and when I originally installed it, I was running the Noveau driver.  Gnome would immediately give me a message that it was "falling back".  So I installed the Nvidia Driver.

I can launch Gnome 3, but the screen doesn't draw anything until I click on the activities button.  If I type text into the terminal, I don't see it until I click on the activities button.  The cursor moves around fine, but when I try to scroll or click on anything, I can't see the result without clicking the activities button.  The menus on the panel open, but there is a 4-6 second delay.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Here is my kernel info:

uname -a
Linux myhost 2.6.38-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 13 07:54:18 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 

Here is my graphics card info.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)

here is the xorg.conf file generated by Nvidia

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder75)  Thu Apr 14 09:22:52 PDT 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

There is also an xorg.conf.d file called nvidia, with the Device information in it.

cosborn72

Member

Registered: 2011-05-17

Posts: 2

Re: screen rendering issues in Gnome 3

Sorry, here is my dmesg | tail.  I also noticed the the splash screen for Libreoffice would open, and a blank document would come up, but when I typed into it, I couldn't see it until I pressed the activities button.

 [chris@myhost bash 0 ~]$dmesg | tail
[   17.384109] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[   17.384115] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[   22.454745] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   33.336700] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[   33.832965] EXT4-fs (sda8): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
[  357.151471] chromium-sandbo (3134): /proc/3132/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/3132/oom_score_adj instead.
[ 2395.905992] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 2395.919536] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 3016.464448] gnome-settings-[3571]: segfault at b452d160 ip b452d160 sp bfa579fc error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.5[b4561000+47000]
[ 3016.618645] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00005039 0000030c 201aa6e0 00000002