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stampy

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Wednesday, June 18th 2008, 9:45pm

KDE4 rendering problems when composite enabled

With composite enabled in xorg.conf KDE rendering is messed up, particularity the task manager as you can see here:
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/1024/88891132sw8.png

I have the newest nvidia-drivers installed and my video card is nvidia fx5500.

I'm not sure what could be causing the problem. Could it be related with the driver?

As a side note, the problem gets even more erratic when firefox is open.

Part of my Xorg:

Source code

 
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 Section "Module" 
     Load           "GLcore" 
     Load           "wfb" 
     Load           "extmod" 
     Load           "glx" 
     Load           "dbe" 
     Load           "record" 
     Load           "xtrap" 
     Load           "type1" 
     Load           "freetype" 
 EndSection 
  
 Section "Monitor" 
     Identifier     "Monitor0" 
     VendorName     "Unknown" 
     ModelName      "DELL 1707FP" 
     Option         "DPMS" 
 EndSection 
  
 Section "Device" 
     Identifier     "Videocard0" 
     Driver         "nvidia" 
     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation" 
     BoardName      "GeForce FX 5500" 
     Option         "NoLogo" "true" 
     Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"  
     Option         "RenderAccel" "true" 
     Option         "BackingStore" "true"  
     Option         "TripleBuffer" "true"  
     Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"  
     Option         "DamageEvents" "true"  
 EndSection 
  
 Section "Screen" 
     Identifier     "Screen0" 
     Device         "Videocard0" 
     Monitor        "Monitor0" 
     DefaultDepth    24 
     Option         "TwinView" "0" 
     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" 
     Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1280x1024_60 +0+0" 
     SubSection     "Display" 
         Depth       24 
    Modes "1280x1024" 
    Viewport 0 0 
     EndSubSection 
 EndSection 
  
 Section "Extensions" 
  Option "Composite" "enabled" 
 EndSection

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