Thinkpad X60s and Gnome 3/ Fedora 17

[tpprynn]

I've just resumed using Fedora after briefly trying it out last year. I have a second hand IBM Thinkpad X60s now and after the initial trauma of Yum and RPM Fusion things seem fine. Only one minor-ish issue, which is that if I scroll through Applications in the dash at a certain speed I get weird colour flashing occurring in that space. As per Tommy Cooper's GP, "Don't do that then!" may be the only advice but I thought I'd ask in case there is a tweak that will stop this happening. I used Ubuntu with Gnome 3 for a few days this week and this didn't happen. It doesn't happen with third party Gnome 3 themes either - just Gnome's own!

Intel Core Duo L2400 @1.6 ghz, G945 chipset, Samsung 128gb SSD, 32 bit Fedora 17, all updates applied.

Thanks.




Glossary

Second hand: used, in particular a type of internationally legal gambling known as eBay
Tommy Cooper's GP: Deceased UK comedian and magician. "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
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---------- Post added at 11:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:25 AM ----------

Seems this isn't a driver problem or anything like that but obscurely to do with my trying to replace the spidery Canterell font with DejaVu Sans. For the time being I've undone this, but I suppose there'll be somewhere more appropriate to ask about it.

[steveje]

Hi,...

i have a X60s too and also ran into this. I use Xorg "xna" Method, to get rid of this fancy color flashing.

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-thinkpad-intel-sna.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Intel Graphics"
	Driver	"intel"
	Option	"AccelMethod" "sna"
	Option	"SwapbuffersWait" "false"
	Option	"TearFree" "true"
EndSection

best regards

steveje
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