[i965GM] menu display problem with intel driver

[Christophe Dumez]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

I'm using Ubuntu Karmic and since I'm using intel video driver v2.7.99 (and now v2.8.0 final) menus are not displayed properly on my window manager (Gnome).

I'll join a screenshot but basically:
- I click on any menu in the system (gnome-taskbar, synaptic, nautilus, xchat...)
- The grey branckground area of the menu is displayed but not the text (the entries)
- Waiting does not change anything
- The only way to display the text if to move the cursor over the text and it will appear one by one once the mouse is over the text.

Compiz is disabled and enabling it does not change anything.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Note that for some reason, a few apps are not affected:
- Firefox 3 & 3.5
- qBittorrent
- OpenOffice 3

there are the only ones I identified so far though.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Rather it sounds like this is a gtk bug, if menus in those non-gtk apps are working okay.
If you find that you can eliminate the problem by downgrading to a different version of the video driver, you're welcome to reopen the -intel task, but please indicate the version and provide additional evidence that it is a driver bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have the issue if you use the standard ubuntu theme too?

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Sorry for the delay, I went on vacation.

Indeed, after trying the standard Human theme, I cannot reproduce the bug.

I was using oxygen theme for gnome. I will see if I can find the url where I got it from.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I got my theme from here: http://kims-area.com/?q=node/63

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