Created attachment 528654 [details] screenshot showing artifacts and fonts problem Description of problem: ----------------------- artifacts are seen on the screen and fonts are scrambled in gnome 3. see screenshots below my system is using the nouveau driver with a GeForce FX 5200 nvidia card the default screen resolution given by nouveau is 1024x768 (though the monitor is capable of 1400x900) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ------------------------------------------------------------- fedora 16, beta fresh install with all updates as of 16/10/2011 for i686 version How reproducible: always happens on login to fedora 16 beta Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. login to fedora 3. view screen Actual results: scrambled fonts/artifacts on screen Expected results: clear text and icons Additional info: see screenshots
This looks like a driver problem to me
Bug 753394 - Severe display corruption in gnome-shell (KDE works) I think that it is the same bug, additional info in that bug filed by me
Adding the following script to the start-up programs (gnome-session-properties) helps a bit. Artifacts *will* appear again, though: #------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh STARTED=`grep -i "GNOME Shell started" ~/.xsession-errors` while [ -z "$STARTED" ] do sleep 1 STARTED=`grep -i "GNOME Shell started" ~/.xsession-errors` done gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings active false gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false sleep 1 gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings active true gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true #------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------ Hope this helps. Cheers, -- José A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail
Another 745202, looks like. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 745202 ***