GIMP draws phantom dots

[Werner Klausen]

I start GIMP and open a new image. When moving my mouse over the canvas and even outside on the grey area, many small, black dots appear. They are not actually drawn, since they disappear when I click the mouse or resize the window.

A screenshot can be seen here, the black line is drawn, the dots just appears when moving the mouse (no buttons held/pressed). http://devwerner.mopo.no/gimp_phantom.png

System: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS AMD64 (uname -r: 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic)
Graphics card: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

I should mention that an similar machine, with the same system, BUT with a slightly diffrent grapichs card do not experience the same problem. That machine has this card: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6200] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hello Werner, yes this sounds like a driver issue. Which nvidia driver are you using? 'nv', 'nvidia-glx', or 'nvidia-legacy-glx'?

[Werner Klausen (wernerakaraptor)]

xorg.conf says:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache]"
        Driver "nv"

On 9/8/06, Paul Sladen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hello Werner, yes this sounds like a driver issue. Which nvidia driver
> are you using? 'nv', 'nvidia-glx', or 'nvidia-legacy-glx'?
>
> --
> GIMP draws phantom dots
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/57709
>

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Best regards,
Werner Klausen