Gnome-shell: black windows with nvidia

Question

Hello,
gnome-shell with nvidia makes black windows when there are lots of windows (5-6 windows).
When the window is black, I can resize the window to a little size and window show fine, but if I resize big it show again black. At times, the window is completely corrupted, random information in black and white. If I close some windows, everything returns to normal.
With gnome2 (compiz or metacity) I had not this problem.
I have not found any similar issue in the bugs section. Any advice?
Two captures of this issue:
http://i52.tinypic.com/4jx4sg.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/1z356y9.jpg
My computer:
$ pacman -Qs nvidia
extra/libvdpau 0.4.1-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
extra/nvidia 270.41.19-1
NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
extra/nvidia-utils 270.41.19-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] (rev a2)
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default nvidia Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
thanks!,
Pedro.
Last edited by pnicolas (2011-05-21 22:14:43)

Answer 1

With nouveau driver everything appears corrupt.
In the past, when I used the nouveau driver in gnome2 with compiz, the desktop was only slightly slower but functional.
I have logged again and I have reproduced the error of black windows for a better log messages (sorry for the log messages in Spanish):
[pedro@pimiento ~]$ cat ~/.xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
(gnome-settings-daemon:5037): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: La combinación de teclas (hamster-applet) está incompleta
(gnome-settings-daemon:5037): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: La combinación de teclas (screenreader) está incompleta
(gnome-settings-daemon:5037): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: La combinación de teclas (magnifier) está incompleta
(gnome-settings-daemon:5037): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: La combinación de teclas (onscreenkeyboard) está incompleta
kupfer: Reading from stdin
** (kupfer.py:5082): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (kupfer.py:5082): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (kupfer.py:5082): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring NetworkManager, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'NetworkManager' (any version) not found
JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw'
JS ERROR: !!! stack = '("Requiring NetworkManager, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'NetworkManager' (any version) not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:8
JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring NetworkManager, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'NetworkManager' (any version) not found'
JS LOG: NMApplet is not supported. It is possible that your NetworkManager version is too old
[INFO 00:44:01.260] Initializing Mono.Addins
[WARN 00:44:01.537] No GUI 'su' tool found
/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/ui/browser.py:2087: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
self.window.realize()
/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/ui/browser.py:636: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
requisition.width, requisition.height = self.__child.size_request ()
** (kupfer.py:5082): CRITICAL **: cr_parser_new_from_buf: assertion `a_buf && a_len' failed
** (kupfer.py:5082): CRITICAL **: cr_parser_set_sac_handler: assertion `a_this' failed
(kupfer.py:5082): librsvg-WARNING **: Error setting CSS SAC handler
** (kupfer.py:5082): CRITICAL **: cr_parser_destroy: assertion `a_this && PRIVATE (a_this)' failed
warning: line 6432: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 6444: incompatible stripping characters and condition
JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sun May 22 2011 00:44:01 GMT+0200 (CEST)
(Tomboy:5081): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: GdkPixbufLoader finalized without calling gdk_pixbuf_loader_close() - this is not allowed. You must explicitly end the data stream to the loader before dropping the last reference.
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1800004 (Kupfer)
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Got a request to focus 0x1800004 (Kupfer) with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't happen!
(parcellite:5077): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
(Tomboy:5081): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/ui/browser.py:2313: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
gtk.main()
Error [kupfer.plugin.websearch] OpenSearchSource: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero o el directorio: '/home/pedro/.mozilla/firefox/3v6c3uek.default/searchplugins'
** Message: No loader found for extension 'session-manager' of type 'python'
warning: line 6432: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 6444: incompatible stripping characters and condition
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x1e00003 (Página en); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck.
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x1e00003 (Página en); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck.
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x1c00154 (pedro@pimi); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck.