Re: Wonky displays with galeon and other apps.
Steve Juranich <sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to figure out if I have a poorly configured video card (highly
> probable) or if the problems that I'm having are actually bugs in the apps
> (running sid, so also highly probable).
>
> The two biggest offenders are Galeon/Mozilla and AcrobatReader (I know I
> should be using xpdf instead, but the last time I used it was about 3 years
> ago and it was pretty much crap back then). These two apps will do two
> different things to hose my screen.
>
> Galeon/Mozilla (I think Konqeror does the same thing.. yep) will keep on
> drawing some of its edge widgets until it decides to quit, so I end up with
> this patchwork pattern on my display that looks like the silver gradient on
> the edges of a mozilla/galeon window. Most of the time the problem is fixed
> when I move a new window over the affected portion of the display, forcing a
> redraw of that piece. Sometimes not, though.
>
> Acroread will kind of do the same thing, but this time it draws a bunch of
> little "black holes" all over my display. These are not removable by moving a
> new window over the affected area. The only way I can get rid of these is by
> stopping my session and logging back in.
>
> My video card is an ATI Radeon 7200. I know that I don't have DRI correctly
> configured because 'glxinfo' says that direct rendering is off.
>
> Can anybody tell me, should I just fix my video card (right now, just a 'to
> do' list item), or are these software bugs. Checking the bug reports on these
> apps doesn't turn up anything very similar.
Since the four apps you mention all use different toolkits, I'd almost
guarantee the problem is video-related. I don't think getting DRI
working would help though. I'd try the vesa driver first (change the
driver entry in XF86Config-4 to "vesa") and see if that works better.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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