Labels and license agreement text not visible

[Peter]

I just installed Picasa 3 beta on my Ubuntu 8.10 computer. The
desktop is Gnome 2.24.1.

The first problem I noticed was that the license agreement dialog box
had no visible text. The buttons also had no labels. Moving the
mouse over the window would sometimes prompt garbled text to become
visible for a fraction of a second.

I guessed at which buttons to click in order to get through the
license agreement and opened the application. All the menu labels are
invisible. All button labels are invisible. There is a large amount
of visible onscreen text though. I've got a screenshot and I'll look
for a place to post it.

I encountered an almost identical problem with the Hydrogen drum
machine application (http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/?
action=show_thread&thread=937&fid=4&page=1). Installing a later
version of that software solved the problem.

My search of the forum did not turn up any mention of labels not being
visible. Has anyone heard of this? Is there something I could try
adjusting?

Thanks.

[leiz]

Can you try turning off compiz? This sounds like this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/3a63d0d4108b64e3?hl=en#

[markL]

Yeah, same problem here too with Picasa3 (not beta). It worked before
I installed an nVidia card & enabled compiz, so I guess it has
something to do with that. I hope it's sorted soon...

[dank]

On Nov 30, 4:11 pm, markL <mark.jk.lawre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, same problem here too with Picasa3 (not beta).  It worked before
> I installed an nVidia card & enabled compiz, so I guess it has
> something to do with that.  I hope it's sorted soon...

This sounds like a known nvidia-96 driver bug in Ubuntu 8.10,
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/300476
It only affects older cards (the ones that use the -96 driver).
What nvidia card do you have?

There are two known workarounds for this nvidia driver bug.
1. Disable proprietary nvidia-96 driver (not so good if you want 3d)
and rebooting
- or -
2. Create a text file named render.reg containing the lines
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"ClientSideWithRender"="N"
and then load that with regedit.
For vanilla wine, that's "wine regedit render.reg"
For Picasa for Linux, that's "/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/wrapper
regedut render.reg"

Do either of these help?

Thanks,
Dan

[dank]

On Nov 30, 4:49 pm, dank <daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2. Create a text file named render.reg containing the lines
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
> "ClientSideWithRender"="N"
> and then load that with regedit.
> For vanilla wine, that's "wine regedit render.reg"
> For Picasa for Linux, that's "/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/wrapper
> regedut render.reg"

er, that's
"/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/wrapper regedit render.reg"

[Gavinj44]

This fixed it for me on Ubuntu 8.10 with Nvidia and Compiz ... I can
now read what I'm doing ;o)

[Tsardonix]

Nice, I some how didn't think it would work but it did!
Now can you fix amarok thats having the same issue ? :)