Version: 4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3) OS: Linux nVidia NV18 GeForce MX 4000 nouveaou driver startx shell has TONS of BadDrawable / RenderBadPicture / BadGC messages. most of the images for the desktop are just hash/random pixels. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: gentoo latest, 3.0.6 kernel, with nouveau drivers and 20111213 tarballs for stage3 and portage. Opteron/Athlon64 w/ VIA K8T800Pro mobo if that matters. Good Luck! Tell me how to capture startx output and I'll paste it in. Actual Results: Unusable imagery in desktop. cursor looks like random pixels, e.g. So does almost every other image in the desktop. Background blue spheres image is fine. Expected Results: Menus / Desktop / Toolbar I can use. I just emerged xorg-server and kde-meta. Okay, so it doesn't CRASH, but it's not usable...
If you think it's the nouveau driver, think again. I have tried nvidia legacy and even VESA. Same effect. I can also toggle AGP from Linux AGPGART to nVidia AGP. I can also change OpenGL from nVidia to xorg X11 They all end up working in the sense that there is a desktop and I can click on stuff, but the images are always missing, for various UI elements. Can anybody decipher the various X error: BadDrawable / BadPicture messages here: http://l-i-e.com/startx.log I'm getting the same thing with ever driver... Please pull it back from "upstream" if you thought it was the driver... I've spent a lot of hours trying all reasonable combinations. And VESA was an unreasonable accident, but even that "worked" to some degree. MORE of the images were missing with VESA, but still the same general effect.
Razza Frazza! Making the [bleep] toolbar taller than the default makes the K-menu, activiy, dolphin, and browser icons magically appear. Making it short, turns them into hash. So apparently it's a problem of having scalable icons or something? The cruft around the clock and the Desktop and the Favorites/Applications/Computer/Recent/Leave images are still trash. I spent a whole lot of time mucking with drivers trying to fix what looks more and more like a KDE desktop issue, to this naive user... So now it's somewhat more usable, if a one-inch taskbar is acceptable... Not really, but a "work-around" at least.