Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/09/2011 01:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 01:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
>>>> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but
>>>> I do have a rendering problem that is quite frustrating and I hope
>>>> this is not hijacking your thread -
>>> I think your problem is a different problem ;)
>>>
>>>> When composing with html formatting - there are many times in the
>>>> compose window that a line will blank out with often some red uneven
>>>> lines along it - moving the cursor back up and removing a character
>>>> and retyping it will often fix the rendering and everything is fine
>>>> again - this has been happening for quite a long time with TB 8 and
>>>> also 9 but I don't know if this is being worked on for a fix - anyone
>>>> else seeing this or am I alone?
>>> You are not alone ... I am experiencing this as well and can't deny to
>>> find it very annoying.
>>>
>>> I am guessing the cause is a malfunction in TB's spellchecker, may-be in
>>> combination with a bug in the X11 server, but I am not sure about it.
>>
>> I read this after responding to Mike's response....   I think you are
>> probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It
>> may be helpful to know if you and Mike have similar HW?
>
> My GPU is (lspci output)
>
> 1:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600
> GT] (rev a1)
>
> Currently using:
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.x86_64
> under xfce.

FWIW: Switching to nvidia's proprietary driver seems to have resolved 
this issue for me - At least this problem has not shown again within the 
last hour, since having rebooted with the nvidia ;)

Ralf