if possible, can you try the same combination of video drivers and kde with gtk and generic widgets to see wether this is reproducible with one or both sets of widgets ?
of course, i should mention that i am experiencing flicker on two different machines. one has i845g (i think) video - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40258 driver, other has some sort of s3 vieo card, so this probably isn't directly related to nv driver.
Rod Engelsman wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
Group,
I have recently played with the 1.9.79 and now the 1.9.87 releases. I've noticed something (actually it's very hard *not* to notice) that I would like to pin down.
When I pass the mouse over the icons in the toolbar and over buttons in dialogs, the icons and buttons will flicker off and on rapidly. It's like the rendering is slow or something. If you move the mouse rapidly, you can actually see the buttons and icons disappearing and then re-appearing. When I do this, the CPU activity spikes as well.
My system is: Fedora Core 3, 2.6.10-(something) 770 kernel, 1.5 GHz P4, 256 MB ram, Nvidia GeForce2 video card on the generic nv driver.
I'm tempted to think part of the problem is that I need to install the proprietary nvidia video driver, but I haven't had any issues with previous releases of OOo or any other software for that matter.
Any clues?
Rod
Update for anyone that's interested or affected:
Installing the prop nvidia driver fixed the problem. I guess the combination of KDE and OOo was straining my system. I suppose that the proprietary driver allowed the machine to offload some work to the video card that wasn't happening with the generic nv driver.
Rod
-- Rich
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