Description of problem: characters disappear on applications. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.99.1-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: nvidia closed driver 1.0.8178
Created attachment 126458 [details] screenshot in xorg-x11-server snapshot
Created attachment 126459 [details] xorg log
Created attachment 126460 [details] xorg.conf
This bug seems nvidia closed driver bug. So report to this : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6349
Perhaps, but this is not FC5. Closed driver is working fine on FC5, which is based on 1.0.9. This happens if you update to FC6-devel from rawhide.
Thanks for the report. For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "CANTFIX" (unsupported).
Even if it *is* an NVidia bug, something changed between xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-9.i386.rpm (which worked fine) and xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.99.1-1.i386.rpm (which demonstrates the problem). I'll see if I can replicate it with the 'nv' driver.
Confirmed NVidia issue. Running 1.0.1-9, both 'nv' and 'nvidia' drivers work. However, upgrading to 1.0.99-1 results in: (II) LoadModule: "nv" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8 (this driver works fine, although slow) (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8178 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver (this one craps out with the symptoms described). I'm guessing some API change between 1.0.1 and 1.0.99 that NVidia needs to account for....
*** Bug 186486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this bug reports to : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66968
setting font antialiasing in gnome to subpixel smoothing fixed this for me. another fix is to set "RenderAccel" to "false" in xorg.conf.
From Lars G : Using your solution in comment #11 , this problem doesn't be fixed.
Following up with info from other bugzillas and similar.... NVidia has ack'ed that it's a driver problem on their part when used under the most recent Xorg snapshots. There was an ABI change for the Glyphs code. They intend to fix this in a future driver release. It's *not* fixed in the just-released 8756 drivers.
(In reply to comment #7) > Even if it *is* an NVidia bug, something changed between > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-9.i386.rpm (which worked fine) and > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.99.1-1.i386.rpm (which demonstrates the problem). Hopefully that information will be useful to Nvidia when they diagnose the problem in their driver.