Display renders improperly on dual-monitor setup

[r]

Binary package hint: vim

I am driving two monitors from a single "nVidia Corporation NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1)" card. Display 1 is to the right of Display 2. When I open a file in gvim (windowed vim), the window opens on the right-hand display, and the text in the right 50% of the display isn't shown. If I pull the window to the left (and refresh the display with "Ctrl-L"), more of the text is shown; if I pull the window to the left-hand display and refresh it, all the text is visible. If I pull the window back to the right-hand display, the text remains visible until I refresh it, scroll, or make some change to cause repainting. Then the rightmost 50% is invisible again.

Ummm... the video driver is whatever the 10.04 beta 1 CD decided to install. I didn't notice this happening with a single-monitor setup, but I might have just missed it. Ksnapshot captures the effect; I will attach the screenshot.

release: 10.04 beta 1
package: vim-gtk 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: vim-gtk 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 14 14:13:41 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim

[r (bloomu-prof)]

Another detail: the first display is identified as output "DVI-I-1" on the "Size & Orientation" system tool; the second is "DVI-I-2". The problem appears on the right-hand output, regardless of whether that's DVI-I-1 or DVI-I-2. There isn't a problem if DVI-I-2 is a clone of DVI-I-1.

[r (bloomu-prof)]

Oh! I now see the same problem when using Open Office 3.2 Spreadsheet. The right-hand side of DVI-I-1, about a third, doesn't display column names or a right-clicked dropdown menu. Another screenshot is attached.

This no longer looks so much like a Vim issue, but I don't know where to report this bug. Sorry.

[dino99 (9d9)]

There is no support on such deprecated version; that one has died long time ago.