From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8426: Glyph and cursor problem with emacs Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:15:30 +0100 Message-ID: <4D9C8392.4040008@harpegolden.net> References: <4D9AE9A6.2010401@ssl.co.uk> <83sjtwvdo8.fsf@gnu.org> <4D9B4CA2.2040109@ssl.co.uk> <83r59gvclx.fsf@gnu.org> <4D9C3D81.2090404@ssl.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302104308 15980 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 15:38:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8426@debbugs.gnu.org To: matthew@ssl.co.uk Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 17:38:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7UoE-0003qW-LE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42793 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7UoD-0002z7-U3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51698 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7UnG-0002Su-Lt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7UnE-0000b5-Tz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7UnE-0000av-SX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7USg-0003AO-9i; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:16:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: David De La Harpe Golden Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8426 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8426-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8426.130210294112141 (code B ref 8426); Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8426) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Apr 2011 15:15:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7USL-00039m-9L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7USI-00039Z-N1 for 8426@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.209] (87-198-55-209.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.209]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97FE268502; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:15:32 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110402 Icedove/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: <4D9C3D81.2090404@ssl.co.uk> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:16:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45664 Archived-At: On 06/04/11 11:16, Matthew Carey wrote: > I have switched off compositing and the problem appears to go away. > > The machine is not identical to the one that does not have the problem in that > though both are 64bit the problem box is a Thinkpad T61 (7959-CT0) which has: > > Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller > > So the question is: Is this a bug in the graphics driver or SuSE's packaging of > the driver compositing software. > Well, a compositing manager is not card-specific... (can end up running some proportion of different code on different cards, though e.g. depending on shader capability level). Looking through the intel driver bugzilla [1], there are various "odd display artifact" type bugs. If you wouldn't mind reporting the bug to them [2], they might be able to diagnose. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Driver%2Fintel&product=xorg [2] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html