Comment 11 for bug 479927

I have this or a similar problem intermittently, though it's quite subtle: sometimes the icons are there, but sometimes they are only a couple of pixels wide which is useless for seeing what they are.

Linux zebimus 2.6.31-17-generic-pae #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:23:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1)
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 190.53 Tue Dec 8 19:16:02 PST 2009
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs