Yotam You made this bug report against xorg, on the other hand you seem to believe this is a nvidia driver issue. However, on what grounds this is a nvidia issue? The reason for incorrect rendering is cairo (package libcairo2) and particularly its 1.9 branch. In lucid we have libcairo2_1.8.10 which works perfectly with nvidia-current_256.35 and 256.44 drivers. The reason for desktop sluggishness is the incompatibility of the new libcairo with gtk-themes. You can easily workaround this by customizing the theme (appearance) you use: choose "Mist" from the "Controls" list. Then the incorrect rendering and sluggishness is gone.
Also this report is a duplicate of the bug #601220 and bug #595845 among others. I also have a report from Arch-linux user, who claims there is absolutely no rendering nor sluggishness issues with nvidia_256.44 and libcairo2_1.9.12. This makes me believe this is rather an "ubuntu" specific issue. -- nvidia 256.35 driver is slow and renders elements incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612614 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
