Well the video should explain it all. Firefox is the only app I have found troubles with but I tend to believe it partly due to Nvidia Quadro FX3800 issue and transparency (and the card being so new). If you can't view the video, I had to power off the system. The problem is universal with nv drivers, nvidia (beta 185.18.05 now) drivers, various xorg-server versions, firefox-bin and firefox compiled. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start firefox (any version that support dragging images/text, binary or compiled) 2.drag text from firefox browser to another window. 3. Actual Results: Basically any text dragging in Firefox causes the screen to flicker. One or two words does not do it much, but grabbing a few lines puts the screen into chaos. Maybe a transparency issue? 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using similar settings without problems. Does it flicker in other apps too?
As far as I can tell Firefox is the only application that does this. Disabling nglayout.enable_drag_images fixes the flicker issue. If you have another application to test, I will gladly install it. I don't know of any others that support dragging of text/images. It may be in the libs that control that function. The card is new, but I can't seem to get any help from nvidia or PNY. Are you running a Quadro FX3800 as well? I am currently running UBB, Overlay, CIoverlay and Triplebuffer settings in xorg.conf. Most of which are features unique to Quadro cards. But it doesn't matter as it does it with the nv driver as well.
Please update to the pre-release version of nvidia-drivers and re-test.
From what I recall 180.44 was the first release with support for this card. I have tried 180.44, 180.51 and 185.18.08 beta. The fact that it does it with nv drivers in xorg-server lends me to believe it is not related to nvidia-drivers, but I see there is 185.18.10 out.. I will edit a new ebuild in my overlay and install.
Same thing with 185.18.10
Newest release of 185.18.14 fixed it for the most part. I only get minor flicker when I have CIOverlay enabled. My guess is maturity issues with nvidia-drivers and the FX3800 card. I hope they get it right soon.
