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I'm using xterm on Gentoo Linux. After working with xterm for a while (typing many characters/commands), suddenly, xterm stops painting (rendering text). The caret seems to be frozen. The text is rendered correctly only after I shift focus to some other window and back to xterm (or move the xterm window).

All other applications (except kvm-qemu - vncviewer and flash), which are giving me similar problems, work just fine. I have tried recompiling the kernel with various frame-buffer/video driver options - but no go. Also tried re-emerging xterm with USE="X". I am gonna try and re-emerge video drivers today...

Has anybody encountered this problem? Any clues?

-Anand

Version details:

1) # X -version X.Org X Server 1.10.4 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #2 SMP x86_64

2) xorg-drivers-1.10 (VIDEO_CARDS="intel")

3) XTerm(271)

4) x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.15.0-r1

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When something looks like a bug, it's good practice to provide versioning information (X server version, video driver version, xterm version). – Stéphane Gimenez Sep 30 '11 at 17:34
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It's not xorg-drivers meta-package version that matters, but xf86-video-intel, the actual driver. Anyway, could be a random driver bug and/or hardware incompatibility, for some similar fun stuff see this for example. Forced me to move to urxvt and I cannot say I have had to regret it. – lkraav Oct 1 '11 at 14:27
Fantastic! Thank you folks. The problem is with xf86-video-intel. I tried changing to xf86-video-vesa and the problem is gone! (although the resolution is low with xf86-video-vesa) - so till I find a solution to the xf86-video-intel issue, I will switch to urxt. (rxvt also has the same problem) – Anand Bonde Oct 1 '11 at 19:01

closed as too localized by rozcietrzewiacz, Stéphane Gimenez, Michael Mrozek♦ Dec 18 '11 at 23:55

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