I've noticed several rendering problems on my i945GM. When I am typing
in gvim, at times the beginning of the line disappears, usually just
after gvim automatically breaks the line. Also, I have problems such
that sometimes the letter I happen to be typing (and the cursor) is not
rendered at all. Causing the screen to refresh (with Ctrl-L or the
like) fixes the problem.
Also, in Liferea, in the pane that displays the actual feed item,
sometimes the pane is not updated until I click on it. This is not from
CPU overload; the pane renders immediately when I click on it. Also, if
the previous feed item required a scrollbar, the area where the
scrollbar is sometimes not re-rendered until I move my mouse over it.
In all these cases, the commonality is that the proper rendering is
delayed. I am using GNOME Shell and GNOME 3.0. The problem first
occurred when I restarted my machine after installing mesa 7.11 and a
the latest linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64. I had not logged out for quite
some time before, so I can't tell what exactly is causing the problem.
Downgrading mesa to 7.10 does not help. I've tried downgrading to Linux
2.6.39-2-amd64 and upgrading to 3.1-rc4 and neither helps. I'm filing
this bug here because I'm not really sure where it belongs, but if you
think there's a place it belongs better, please feel to reassign it.
I'm happy to test things if you need more information.