[arch-general] X terminal redraw problem

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On 07/23/2011 06:02 PM, Jon Gjengset wrote:
> Hi fellow archers!
>
> This is my first post to this mailing list, so please excuse my
> behavior if I have picked the wrong list =)
>
> For a couple of months now, I have been experiencing occasional
> "flickering" in my terminal emulator (urxvt, but also happens with
> xterm, roxterm and gnome-terminal).
>
> There are several forum threads on the same issue:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118648
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117202
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117423
> The latter seems to be the biggest one...
>
> The problem is that every now and then, the terminal seems to "forget"
> to draw some of the text on the screen, leaving a mangled output
> consisting of some stale text cells (as in the character that was
> previously in that position is still visible) and some empty cells (the
> previous character was a space, and the new character was not printed).
>
> The problem seems to occur sporadically, but happens often enough to be
> a real nuissance.
> Highlighting any text in the terminal window causes the text to be
> immediately corrected.
> The problem also appears when using vim or terminal-based emacs (i.e.
> curses interfaces).
>
> Seems the problem is quite widespread, and affects both nVidia, AMD/ATI
> and Intel graphics drivers.. A bug in X perhaps?
>
> Could someone with a bit more know-how than me please have a look?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Jon
Sounds like the problem I've been having with atris [1] and scummvm [2]. 
Try those, see if you have any redraw problems (switch to fullscreen in 
atris; just start `scummvm` and move around the mouse). Also try linux 
2.6.38.6 [3]. That one doesn't have the problem, the first 2.6.39 does.

My graphics card is intel 965gm.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7671
[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=scummvm
[3] http://schlunix.org/archlinux/core/os/

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