Visual Effects remove text from clickable buttons

[newonlinux]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I have an Nvidia graphics card, and the proprietary drivers for it, and I assume that it is causing the problem. I'm on Ubuntu 8.10

When I go to Appearence and change Visual Effects from off to Normal or Extra, when I open an Open Office program, the words are missing from the clickable buttons, like the menu tabs at the top (File, Edit, View etc.)

They are there for a split second when the programs start, but then disappear, and if I hover the mouse over the button they reappear for another split second but then disappear again.

But other programs like Evolution or Gedit work fine with no missing words.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi jembernstein,

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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