Graphic Problem in Chimera (text doesn't display properly)

[badasve]

Hello,

as you can read in the title, the text beneath the images of the drives in chimera doesn't display properly (see attached pic).

I am using an ASUS Sabertooth P67 MB with a Nvidia GTX 580 GPU

My hack is fully working, this is my last "cosmetic" problem (along with having intel turbo mode work in OSX but I keep this one for another topic).

I've tried looking on the forums and I can't seem to find any solution, and not many people have this problem.

So far, I tried changing the theme, i tried showinfo=no, nothing works, I think it is related to the chimera display driver or resolution but I'm a little lost here.

Please tell me if you how to solve this issue, tx !

 

[borob]

I am having this issue too.
Last weekend I was installing to a new drive for creating dsdt etc and disconnected all drives. The boot loader was ok, i was glad that the flicker finally disappeared from the boot screen but after I reconnected my 1,5TB drive that has 2 NTFS partition, and MBR the flickers have reappeared. Didn't had time to look into this, because as you wrote don't interfere with booting so it's not priority...

 

[badasve]

I managed to get rid of the problem by hiding all my partitions except OS X. I read in some other thread that people managed to get rid of the problem as you did yourself, by unplugging Windows formatted drives, so I guess it's a problem with displaying the labels of NTFS disks (I don't think it's MBR's fault, since my OSX drive is MBR and has 1 HFS+ partition and one (now hidden) NTFS partition).

Anyway, I dual boot using windows 7 bootloader and when I get to chimera I only have my OSX drive which is fine by me.

By the way, does somebody know if there is a way for chimera to "instant" boot a partition?
So far I've managed to suppress "time out" using timeout=0 but then it doesn't select anything at all and just sits there until you press enter. Now my solution is to set timeout=1 so that it boots quickly, but I'd be even happier if there was no time out at all.

Anyway, that's not too bad either,
Thanks for your answer

 

[mrhooks]

Not just a cosmetic problem anymore

I had this problem with the default theme, when I'd have 4 or more drives. Once I installed my own theme, it went away.

However, recently I had to reinstall OS X, and the problem came back in my own theme. Not only that, but it's become really buggy: if I have my Lion USB stick plugged in (but boot off my main hard drive), it's just a cosmetic problem, but if I don't have the USB stick plugged in, some of my hard drives show up as CD-ROMs, and if I try to move the selection box left or right, the whole thing goes nuts and I have to turn my computer off with the Power button (can't select a drive to boot, selection box does not move, and eventually the theme graphics disappear and the screen turns into a big mess). All of my drives are HFS+, but not all of them have OS X installed (but they all show up in the menu, they always have).

So far, the only solution I have is to set Scan Single Drive to Yes (I haven't checked to see if it also prevents the "goes nuts when I press Right Arrow key" thing, but the graphics look fine). This happens with Chimera v1.7 and 1.8, or whatever the last two versions are.