[SOLVED]What is wrong with my terminals??!!

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alfagamma81 · Post by **alfagamma81** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:13 pm

Ok, i do something like emerge --sync, and after that everything goes f....ed up.. Just white trails on the screen when trying to type something, so I cant really see what i am typing.. Same thing with every terminal(i've tried xterm, gnome-terminal, urxvt...)

I was really hopeful when i saw today that there was vte 0.20 upgrade and hoped that would fix the problem. But no!! I'm really getting frustrated.

Tried to change cursor non-blinking, no results.

I am really really grateful if someone could help me!

This is how it looks like:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3748/screen3h.jpg

avx · Post by **avx** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:37 pm

Well, give us some versions of X, your graphicscard+drivers, etc.pp

alfagamma81 · Post by **alfagamma81** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:05 pm

Xorg -server 1.5.3-r5
Nvidia 8800Gts , driver is 180.51

xorg.conf:

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Fri Apr 17 00:40:10 PDT 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
#   Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

button · Post by **button** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:31 pm

What are your locale settings and which fonts are you using?
Does this happen in ttys as well?

bizzo · Post by **bizzo** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:00 pm

I'm noticing the same issue in terminals. When typing a line in a command prompt the text is a bunch of white or black blocks but after hitting enter the text is displayed properly. There is something similar but more subtle going on in most other applications too. For instance, when typing in Firefox's awesome bar, some characters are empty spaces until the next character is typed.

This seemed to have started after upgrading to xorg to 1.5.x and I wonder if it has to do with evdev. My xorg.conf is similar to the one posted and doesn't use evdev for mouse or keyboard.

locale settings - I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for:
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

fonts -
Application: UnDotum
Document: Sans
Desktop: UnDotum
Window Title: Sans Bold
Fixed: monospace

ttys do not exhibit this behaviour.

Thanks for any help

alfagamma81 · Post by **alfagamma81** » Tue May 05, 2009 10:13 pm

Nice to see i'm not the only one with this problem..

Yeah, tty is unaffected in my case also..

I've found this , but i must be stupid enough to see solution from this page:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514632

Princess Nell · Post by **Princess Nell** » Tue May 05, 2009 11:43 pm

Hhm, I've seen similar things here and wondered if it was related to the nvidia driver and screen refresh.
Messed up terminals, and also messed up firefox windows (e.g. the contents of a window shifted up one
row without the previous contents being erased, when top running in a gnome terminal behind the
firefox window changes state). I've now applied the blinking cursor fix and will see how that goes.

MaximeG · Post by **MaximeG** » Wed May 06, 2009 7:44 am

Hi,

Are you using Compiz ?

Have you tried another nvidia-driver version ?

Regards,
Maxime

alfagamma81 · Post by **alfagamma81** » Wed May 06, 2009 9:09 am

As a matter of fact I am using compiz, and going to test if disabling it will help.

EDIT:

Ok, it is compiz problem.

Thank you, i should have thought that . Next problem is how to get it working with compiz, because i have really get used to it..

MaximeG · Post by **MaximeG** » Wed May 06, 2009 10:54 am

Me too.

I had the same issue as you a short time ago.
Fixed it by upgrading xorg,compiz,nividia-drivers,kde to ~arch.

You may want to install latest versions of nvidia-drivers with the berkano overlay.
Or, if it's not helping, you may also start trying different nvidia-drivers : it's not because their are newer that their are more stable/performant ; sometimes it works better to downgrade to an older version, but that depends entirely on your nvidia card.

Good Luck !
Maxime

alfagamma81 · Post by **alfagamma81** » Wed May 06, 2009 11:53 am

I'm using entirely ~amd64 "unstable" branch(which hasn't caused any major problem yet), so x-org and stuff should be the latest versions.

So i'm going to try downgrading nvidia drivers at this point.

There was a problem not long ago when compiz refused to start, because of metacity upgrade. As the compiz package says it should be re-emerged after metacity upgrade, and that helped. Strangely enough there was no problems yesterday when metacity was upgraded again. No need to compile compiz.

alfagamma81 · Post by **alfagamma81** » Wed May 06, 2009 1:01 pm

Wow, MaximeG you are my hero!

What I did was using berkano overlay as you suggested, and now my nvidia-driver is 185.13. It seems to work perfectly with compiz. Also a flickering is gone when resizing terminal window.

I bow before you

MaximeG · Post by **MaximeG** » Wed May 06, 2009 1:17 pm

You're welcome.

Strangely enough, the issue was fixed from 180.51, but I guess we don't have exactly the same GPU/Card.

Regards,
Maxime

bizzo · Post by **bizzo** » Wed May 06, 2009 6:25 pm

I am using compiz and nvidia driver 180.51
My terminals are now fixed but I'm not sure what caused the fix. I did basically two things:
1) changed my mouse and keyboard drivers to evdev within the xorg.conf
2) Updated gnome ~amd64 (I was running gnome ~amd64 but it wasn't completely up-to-date)

Both compiz and the nvidia driver were not changed and I never got to trying any of the suggestions posted here.

Thanks for the responses.
Sanity has returned

MaximeG · Post by **MaximeG** » Thu May 07, 2009 6:51 am

Hi,

Yes, I'm afraid these issues with compiz are subject to come back and forth. Not sure on what's causing not fixing the issue either ^^.

Regards,
Maxime

Mythos · Post by **Mythos** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:30 am

Hi bizzo i have the some problem here, can you post your make.conf

gnome version and nvidia version?

Thank you

bizzo · Post by **bizzo** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:37 pm

Hey Mythos,

My make.conf

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CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

USE="X a52 aac acpi additions alsa amarok2 applet aspell avahi bash-completion
     branding cairo cdparanoia cdr consolekit cscope curl dbus deskbar divx
     djvu dvd dvdr dvi eds emacs embedded emerald equalizer esd faac faad fam
     fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg firefox flac galago garmin gcj gdl gif gimp
     gmedia gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 groupwise gsf gstreamer gtk
     gtkhtml gtkspell hal hunspell imlib ipod java jpeg jpeg2k json lcms ldap
     libass libburn libcaca libnotify mad mdnsresponder-compat mng mono
     moonlight mozdevelop mozdom mozembed mozilla moznocompose moznoirc
     moznomail moznoroaming mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 msn musepack musicbrainz
     nautilus network nntp nsplugin oci8-instant-client ogg opengl overlays
     pdf php png postgres qt3 qt4 quicktime rar realmedia ruby samba
     schroedinger sdk sdl semantic-desktop smp sound speex spell sqlite svg
     sysfs t1lib theora tiff totem tracker truetype v4l v4l2 vcd vcdinfo vcdx
     vim-syntax visualization vorbis vte wmf wmp wxwindows xhtml xine xml
     xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid yahoo -beagle"

PORTAGE_NICENESS=18
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
FEATURES="ccache fixpackages parallel-fetch"

INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
LINGUAS="en en_US"

One other thing I didn't mention previously, I added the consolekit USE flag. I think it was required to update some gnome-related software.

I'm running gnome-2.24.1 and nvidia-drivers-180.51

Serchio · Post by **Serchio** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:51 am

I have this problem too

I'm running gnome-2.24.1 and nvidia-drivers-180.51 too...

Did you try downgrade nvidia-drivers?

bizzo · Post by **bizzo** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:35 am

I haven't tried downgrading my nvidia drivers but I believe I had the same issue with the 180.44 drivers.
By the way, I have noticed some of the terminal weirdness again but it seems to only occur during high load (ex. emerging). Most of the time my terminals are okay.

MaximeG · Post by **MaximeG** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:15 pm

Hi,

My issue is still there actually with 180.51. Less harsh than in 185.13 but still here.
Perhaps it worth a try to install compiz 0.9.

Regards,
Maxime

saboya · Post by **saboya** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:03 pm

Try running compiz with -sm-disable or/and --loose-binding. Disabling effects such as anti-aliasing in the terminals may help also.

progman32 · Post by **progman32** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:31 am

O happy day! Fix here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-59 ... ml#5946925
Specifically:

"Force synchronisation between X and GLX" - option on the workaround tab in the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Thanks sike420. Dunno why this suddenly became a problem on my machine - I didn't upgrade compiz and downgrading to my old nvidia drivers didn't help...