[SOLVED] blink in kwrite and kate

[slacknatcher]

hello folks

i got this annoyin problem lately in netbook ( a packarbell Dot M with the malicious GMA500 chipset, but with the driver poulsbo from ubuntu-mobile repositories workin')

the problem is that when i am writing in kate o kwrite wvery time that a put a character in the screen part blink and hide the text under it.

i know that is a little bit difficult to imagine, that because i upload a video to youtube that shows the situcion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km9ejndh9wE .

this problem doesn't present in OOo and another text editors like mousepad and notepad ( from wine )

anyone with an idea? please it would help me a lot because i take notes from class in this PC

thank in advance

( sorry for my english , i am chilean )

[Snowhog]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

Welcome. What version of Kubuntu are you using, and what version of KDE?

[slacknatcher]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

i am using jaunty with the latest kde aviable , ( last time i check it was 4.2.2 )

[Snowhog]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

Wow. That's some messed up 'something' (watched the vid). You said 'lately', meaning this was not happening before? If yes, when did you first notice this behavior?

[slacknatcher]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

well lately i mean, like 3 week ago i updated the system and the poulsbo driver , which has fame of been buggy, it screwed up all my system. in that time i was using xubuntu 'cause i didn't know how much the netbook can give.

after that i had been trying different distros ( fedora for his poulsbo support, arch has a nice PKGBUILD for poulsbo ) but nothing work. and the last friday i was looking in the web some solution for the crash in xubuntu, and figure out how to solve it.

i think i had expressed in the wrong way in the post ( bad english sorry ) this is the first time that i use kubuntu ( and kde ) in a netbook.

the problem is only present in kwrite and kate. i really uses them a lot , because i don't like to take notes in OOo and i read a lot of code to figure out how it work ( but i didn't understand a lot ).

really nobody had has the same issue?

[Snowhog]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

You should read through the Ubuntuforums Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500.

[slacknatcher]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

WOW snowhog dude you are awesome!

i would get a week after that i figure out that the EXA mode was no activated

thank man . changin' the title to solved

thank for all the fish kubuntu forums

[Snowhog]

Re: blink in kwrite and kate

I'll take that to mean that your issue was resolved with the link provided. Cool. 8)