Subject: Re: bug#6193: emacs 23 in ubuntu 10.04 gnu linux: black lines overwrite text!
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:24:06 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> A very short followup: Today the same (apparently) problem started to appear
> in another program,
> open office calc (which I use sparinlgly to communicate with windows types).
> Same symproms as with emacs,
> but a little less annoying. \Might this be a gnome problem?

Or it might be a problem with your video card/drivers.

Eg (old issues, but similar kind of thing)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/55073
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00646.html

Anyway, I don't think there's anything we can do to help.
It sounds more like the kind of thing to report to Ubuntu.