On Thursday 25 June 2009 16:31:29 Andreas Petzold wrote: > Hi, > > since I've upgraded from F10 to F11, I'm getting corrupted graphics in > many kde apps. See > > http://iktp.tu-dresden.de/~petzold/corrupt.png > > for an example. Usually, the desktop background is displayed in > toolbars instead of the regular toolbar background, but sometimes this > also happens in other places. If I resize the window or mouse-over the > affected parts of the window, the problem fixes itself, but it will > reappear soon. I've only seen this with kde apps and not with others > like firefox. Since F10 and F11 use the same qt version I suspect the > intel drivel for my venerable i830 graphics chipset is at fault. Does > anybody on this list use F11 with kde on a machine with an (old) intel > chipset with or without the same problems that I'm seeing? I haven't > had the time to play around with any of the different acceleration > options of the new intel driver, I'll check that later. > > Cheers, > > Andreas > Hi, I'm facing the same problem with nouveau driver but I'm not sure if it is driver problem or kde problem. I can't reproduce this at will. With nouveau this occurs much often than with nv driver, at least it seems to me. I usually get some messages in ~/.xsession-errors: QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent QPainter::translate: Painter not active QPainter::setClipRect: Painter not active QPainter::hasClipping: Painter not active QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active QPainter::drawRects: Painter not active QPainter::hasClipping: Painter not active QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active QPainter::drawRects: Painter not active QPainter::hasClipping: Painter not active Michal
