Subject: bug#8426: Glyph and cursor problem with emacs

From: David De La Harpe Golden <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:15:30 +0100

On 06/04/11 11:16, Matthew Carey wrote:
> I have switched off compositing and the problem appears to go away.
>
> The machine is not identical to the one that does not have the problem in that
> though both are 64bit the problem box is a Thinkpad T61 (7959-CT0) which has:
>
> Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
>
> So the question is: Is this a bug in the graphics driver or SuSE's packaging of
> the driver compositing software.
>

Well, a compositing manager is not card-specific... (can end up running 
some proportion of different code on different cards, though e.g. 
depending on shader capability level).   Looking through the intel 
driver bugzilla [1], there are various "odd display artifact" type bugs. 
If you wouldn't mind reporting the bug to them [2], they might be able 
to diagnose.

[1] 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Driver%2Fintel&product=xorg

[2] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html