highlighted menu items disappear

[Per Ångström]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Found in 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3 (jaunty)

Highlighted menu items are rendered invisible in OpenOffice.org (all document types). When scrolling through a menu from top to bottom, most menu items except sub-menu headings will be blanked out. See attached screen shot. 100 % reproducible.

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0120]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GS [10de:0425] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: LG Electronics, Inc. Device [1854:0120]

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

What video driver are you using?

[Per Ångström (autark)]

nvidia non-free, v. 180.44 (64-bit).

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This appears to be an nvidia driver issue. It seems similar to the older issue that caused OOo menus to not appear but may not actually be the same issue.

[Per Ångström (autark)]

Yes, it looks like an nvidia driver issue - I removed the non-free driver and got the menu items back.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi autark,

Thanks for including an image to demonstrate the issue. Could you also please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Per Ångström (autark)]

I opened OpenOffice just now to reproduce the bug, and was surprised to see the menus working. So at least, it's no longer 100 % reproducible.

[Per Ångström (autark)]

On opening OO-Calc a second time I got the disappearing behavior back, although only on the currently highlighted item; after scrolling the last highlighted item was redrawn.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Per Ångström (autark)]

I have tested version 185.18.14 with OO Calc and Word, and I have good news: the menus are now working as expected.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks, since it sounds like it's all working properly now, since -185 is now in Karmic this bug can be closed.