Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> [14-04-14 17:23]:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:20:12AM +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote
>
> > was updated and I installed Linux 3.12.17 (vanilla) and recompiled
> > the nvidia-drivers and finally the X11-modules, a really annoying
> > thing happened:
> >
> > When a program uses the screen overlay technique (right word???) to
> > display (mainly) videos (me-tv, flashplayer, Blender while rendering)
> > ANY and everything on any desktop, which has a black background (mutt,
> > urxvt to only name a few) displays the video even the video
> > application runs on a different desktop.
> >
> > Handling the desktops then becomes a masterpieces of focus and
> > counting.... ;)
> >
> > I am using openbox, nvidia-drivers, linux 3.12.17 vanilla, me-tv,
> > flashplayer, blender (daily build taken from blenders buildbot).
> >
> > What can I do to get rid of this effect?
>
>   This seems to be a common problem with nvidia video cards using the
> nvidia binary blobs.  I ran into it some time ago.  If you don't want to
> get rid of the nvidia card, try the Nouveau open-source drivers.  You
> won't get all the acceleration that the Nvidia binaries provide, but at
> least you probably won't get the problems you have now.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>


Hi,

after a reasonable count of up- and downgrades of a handful of
software and drivers I sorted out 

   x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0

that causes the problems. Everything is now at the newest state.
After downgrading to

    x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.5

and its modules everything works fine again.

Only mentioned, everyone else searches here for the same and got
the impression it is better to buy a new card / new PC / other OS.

Best regards,
mcc