Strange artifacts in text fields within gtk applications in X when using nv driver
Bug #50768 reported by
PrivateUser132781
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
X.Org X server |
Fix Released
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Medium
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
When editing a text field in a web application, e.g. this window on launchpad or a message in gmail and one moves the cursor with the keyboard, a cursor is drawn between every character and only disappears after several seconds. This does not happen in firefox on windows or on my Powerbook running Dapper PPC.
I'm not sure whether this is a firefox problem or Xorg's graphics rendering. This machine has an on-board nvidia video adapter and uses the open source driver. Device Manager says:
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Product: Unknown (0x0163)
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | nobody → mozillateam |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | mozillateam → mozilla-bugs |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Undecided |
status: | Unknown → New |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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In text widgets such as this editing box (or the URL box) in firefox, the half-down" ).
erasure of the bar cursor is not done correctly when moving the cursor, leaving
annoying phantom cursors around. Even the normal bar cursor is actually not
drawn correctly (rather than blinking ON/OFF it blinks "half-up/
This problem disappears if I specify the XaaNoSolidFillRect option in my
xorg.conf file. I'm seeing this on a GeForce 6200 (TurboCache) chipset, with
version 1.0.1.5 of the nv driver (from Debian testing). I've also tried the
version 1.1.1 of the driver (from Debian experimental) and the problem seems to
still bepresent in that version as well.