[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 753027] Re: Menus are partially unreadable in kubuntu 11.04 Beta 1

2011-04-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
I am experiencing the same problem. I am running Kubuntu 11.04 Beta1 on an Asus P8H67-M PRO/CSM motherboard with a Sandy Bridge Intel i7-2600K CPU using the on CPU Intel HD Graphics. Also of note is that menus in non-KDE applications do display correctly (e.g., Firefox, Open Office, etc.) --

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 750964] Re: Screen corruption in menus and titlebars

2011-04-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
I am experiencing the same problem. I am running Kubuntu 11.04 Beta1 amd_64 on an Asus P8H67-M PRO/CSM motherboard with a Sandy Bridge Intel i7-2600K CPU using the on CPU Intel HD Graphics. Of particular note is that menus in non-KDE applications do display correctly (e.g., Firefox, Open Office,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 750964] Re: Screen corruption in menus and titlebars

2011-04-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
Scott, would you be able to describe in detail how to work around this problem by creating the xorg.conf file? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/750964 Title: Screen corruption in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 750964] Re: Screen corruption in menus and titlebars

2011-04-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thank you for the work around Scott. It does appears to address the incorrectly displayed kde menus. :-) A side effect I have noticed is that typing appears to be slower to respond. For instance while typing this message in Firefox, I can see some temporary artifacts around each letter when I

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 750964] Re: Screen corruption in menus and titlebars

2011-04-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
Of note regarding the work around is that the temporary artifacting problem (when typing quickly) appears to be more pronounced in GNU Emacs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/750964

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 750964] Re: Screen corruption in menus and titlebars

2011-04-11 Thread Curtis Gedak
Great work Robert!!! I added the PPA and performed a sudo apt-get upgrade, and then rebooted. After booting up natty, the problem with screen corruption in menus and title bars was gone! For my testing, the DebugFlushBatches workaround was not in place. Also of note is the missing slow typing

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 753027] Re: Menus are partially unreadable in kubuntu 11.04 Beta 1

2011-04-15 Thread Curtis Gedak
madbiologist, yes I can confirm that this fixed the problem for me. Recently I tried kubuntu-11.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso and can confirm that the problem appears to be fixed in this new beta2 release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 755841] Re: [sandybridge] video tearing

2011-07-04 Thread Curtis Gedak
Through trial and error I have discovered two work-arounds that appear to address the video tearing problem for 1080i video on Intel HD 3000 Graphics GPUs. For mplayer see the following link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37686#c35 For mythtv see the following link:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 755841] Re: [sandybridge] video tearing

2011-09-23 Thread Curtis Gedak
Eureka! I have discovered an even better work around for Mythbuntu MythTV. This new workaround not only addresses the video tearing problem, but also addresses the small amount of juddering that was present in the workaround identified in comment #23. For Mythbuntu 11.04 MythTV see the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 755841] Re: [sandybridge] video tearing

2011-05-18 Thread Curtis Gedak
I too am experiencing High Definition video tearing with my Intel sandybridge CPU/GPU processors. Most of the time the tearing occurs on the upper third of the screen. This problem occurs on both an Intel i7-2600K and on an Intel i5-2500K. Both of these chips feature Intel High Definition

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 755841] Re: [sandybridge] video tearing

2011-05-29 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thank Envel for reporting you findings and the link to the other bug report. While researching this problem I came across the following Intel Linux Graphics documentation: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html My thoughts are that this problem must be solvable, or else why would

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 755841] Re: [sandybridge] video tearing

2011-05-30 Thread Curtis Gedak
Envel, if you need help with testing or something else just let me know. I do have a background in C and am the maintainer of the GParted application. I have two systems for testing: - ASUS P8M61-M motherboard and an Intel i5-2500k CPU - ASUS P8M67-M Pro/CSM motherboard and an Intel i7-2600k CPU

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1535447] Re: Intel Graphics 4K Screen Tearing

2016-05-19 Thread Curtis Gedak
I don't have a 4K monitor, but the following steps fixed video tearing with Kubuntu 16.04 on my Intel i7-2600k CPU with integrated Intel HD 3000 Graphics. Edit /etc/environment and add the following lines: __GL_YIELD="USLEEP" KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=0 KWIN_USE_BUFFER_AGE=0 Save the file and reboot.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1623969] Re: Cannot log in to kubuntu after update (Intel graphics + ksshaskpass)

2017-01-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
Recently I encountered this problem and discovered a solution. I posted my solution at: kubuntu 16.04 SDDM login screen hangs https://askubuntu.com/questions/765364/kubuntu-16-04-sddm-login-screen-hangs/874972#874972 For completeness sake, I will also repost the solution here. --

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1744372] Re: gparted does not start - Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.

2018-01-20 Thread Curtis Gedak
You might try petitioning the packager who made the decision. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1737248 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to wayland in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744372 Title:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1744372] Re: gparted does not start - Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.

2018-01-20 Thread Curtis Gedak
I see now that you have already done that. Perhaps if enough users express their displeasure with the decision then perhaps the packager will reconsider. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to wayland in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1744372] Re: gparted does not start - Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.

2018-01-19 Thread Curtis Gedak
The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland. See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214 Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable- xhost-root work-around. See

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-08-02 Thread Curtis Gedak
I tried using OpenGL and EGL for the compositor, but unfortunately EGL has issues. More specifically with EGL I experienced an inability to login due to SDDM login screen hangs. This is similar to the issue I experienced with XRender [1] which I noted earlier in this report. [1]

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-08-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
Hi Timo, Thank you for your perseverance to resolve this issue. I am at a writers conference for the next three days. My earliest opportunity to test will be on Monday, August 13th, 2018. I will plan to test xorg-server from xenial-proposed and let you know after I've completed testing. In

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-08-13 Thread Curtis Gedak
release package then please let me know. Sincerely, Curtis Gedak ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780664 Title: Recent libgl-mesa graphics

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-08-21 Thread Curtis Gedak
Daniel, can you try rebooting your computer or otherwise restarting the xserver and then re-testing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780846 Title: After update 2018-07-08 menus

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-08-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
Daniel, the KDE menu bar colour problem I experienced and noted in bug #1780664 also went away when I upgraded to the new xorg-server. I had to reboot and upgrade all my packages twice in order to get the latest. You might try checking to ensure that you have all the latest packages. -- You

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-08-22 Thread Curtis Gedak
@Timo, I am using Intel HD Graphics and no longer experience issues as described in this report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780846 Title: After update 2018-07-08 menus and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-14 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks Timo for looking at this issue. Following is the output requested: $ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-core: Installed: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Candidate: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Version table: *** 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] [NEW] Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-08 Thread Curtis Gedak
Public bug reported: PROBLEM Recent libgl-mesa 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon. After recently applying updates, left clicking on some application menus and icons no longer displays a drop-down menu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-10 Thread Curtis Gedak
While waiting for a fix to this issue, I decided to put a *hold* on these packages so that they won't be upgraded. To place a hold on these packages using apt: sudo apt-mark hold \ libegl1-mesa \ libgbm1 \ libgl1-mesa-dri \ libgl1-mesa-glx \ libglapi-mesa \

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-07-11 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks @Patrick for the link between the bug reports. Bug #1780664 contains instructions on how to revert to earlier libgl-mesa package versions while we wait for a fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to libdrm in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780846] Re: After update 2018-07-08 menus and buttons are behaving badly

2018-07-11 Thread Curtis Gedak
I was able to work-around this issue by rolling back only the *libgl- mesa* packages from version 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 to version 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~16.04.1. I did not need to revert the *libdrm* packages in order to work-around this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
To help others with reverting to a prior version of libgl1-mesa graphics drivers, I have provided the following download links. libgl1-mesa .deb packages (14 files) - Search for "Downloadable files" --

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1780664] Re: Recent libgl-mesa graphics update prevents drop down list menu appearing in apps like firefox three line/bar menu icon

2018-07-09 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thanks @Pascal for indicating that the drop down menu lists do appear by selecting XRender as the rendering engine. Unfortunately XRender has other issues. The reason I originally changed away from using the default settings is because then I had issues with screen tearing [1] and an inability