Comment 2 for bug 120525

I have this problem, too, running on fully patched 7.10. I tried installing the sun official 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 debs in place of the ubuntu version, but this also failed to show anything in place of the transparency (no gradient fill, no objects, for example arrows, on top of gradients). As Facundo points out, I can see the border, but not the transparent fill.

I'm using the nvidia drivers, with no desktop effects.

Happy to provide any more info.