Menu rollover problems

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walker1c

Menu rollover problems

Post by walker1c »

I have just done a clean install of Mint 17 Cinnamon. There seem to be several display problems with the main menu.

1. When I roll the mouse over items in the right-hand list each item is highlighted by drawing a pale-grey box around it, and the name and description of the item are displayed in the bottom right-hand corner of the menu panel. But these effects are not removed when I roll on to the next menu item. The result is that I end up with several items highlighted and multiple names and descriptions overprinted in the corner.

2. When the item list scrolls it sometimes ends up with several overlaid copies of the icon and description one or two pixels above each other.

3. Sometimes the menu panel displays with a transparent background, so the menus and items consist of icons and white text superimposed on whatever is behind the menu. The scrollbar and the top and bottom of the panel are visible in their usual brown colours. I've noticed this particularly when there are GIMP windows open on the screen, but I couldn't say if that's the only time it happens.

Does anyone know how this can be fixed?

Chris

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System:    Host: devl01 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5Q-PRO version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 1306 date: 08/20/2008
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19200.5 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2400.065 MHz 2: 2400.065 MHz 3: 2400.065 MHz 4: 2400.065 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G71 [GeForce 7900 GS] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV49 GLX Version: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 10.1.0) Direct Rendering: No
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet driver: ATL1E port: ec00 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2240.5GB (19.1% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Crucial_CT240M50 size: 240.1GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD20EARX size: 2000.4GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 212G used: 5.6G (3%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 236M used: 45M (20%) fs: ext2 
           ID: swap-1 size: 8.59GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0C mobo: 46.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1155 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 sys-2: 0 
Info:      Processes: 182 Uptime: 4 days Memory: 1990.6/7984.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 
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nomko

Re: Menu rollover problems

Post by nomko »

Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G71 [GeForce 7900 GS] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz
Does anyone know how this can be fixed?
You need to install a proprietary driver for your Nvidia device. Go to the Additional driver menu and select the latest Nvidia driver available. Install that driver and when it is finished, open a terminal and run the following command:

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sudo nvidia-xconfig
It will ask for your password, type your password (you ownt see anything happening in the terminal) and press enter. After this is finished, reboot your system.
walker1c

[SOLVED] Menu rollover problems

Post by walker1c »

Thanks nomko. The problem seems to have been fixed, but in a distinctly bizarre way.

I downloaded and ran the Nvidia installation file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.88.run. It failed because I was running it from an X session, so I exited X and ran it again. It almost immediately gave me the message:
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.

According to the log:
The distribution-provided pre-install script failed!

The pre-install script in question is /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install, and it contains the following statements:
# Trigger an error exit status to prevent the installer from overwriting
# Ubuntu's nvidia packages.
exit 1


As the script is explicitly designed to fail, the driver installation can never succeed. However, inxi -Fxz appears to show that it did succeed:
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau) Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz

I don't think I've done anything else that might have installed Nvidia drivers.
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