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Jesse,

I've had the same problem, since the X update about a month ago.  It worked 
fine before that.  I also have the 855 GM video controller.

Thanks for the "menu effects" comment.  I hadn't realized I could shut it off 
that way -- I don't like transparent menus anyway.

Peter A. Bonucci


On Thursday 08 July 2004 6:35 am, Jesse Rosenthal wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Apologies if this belongs on the user-kde list, but I'm not at all sure
> that it's isolated to KDE -- that's just where I've seen it.
>
> I'm running Debian Sid, and I have an odd problem with transparencies
> becoming color-distorted (reversed?) in KDE. To be more precise, when I
> highlight an icon, either by expanding a "mouse box" over it, or
> right-clicking it, the colors become quite distorted -- lots of orange, on
> blue icons. This is not the result of a recent upgrade -- I've had the
> problem since I installed Unstable about a month ago, but now I've pretty
> much exhausted my ability to find an answer in archives/google.
>
> As a further clue, when I go to the "menu effects" section of the style
> menu in the KDE control panel, I find that "Software Tint" and "Software
> Blend" will both lead to the same distortion, while "Xrender Blend" does
> not.
>
> As a test, I ran Knoppix 3.4 on my machine, and this problem did not occur.
> When I copied over the XF86Config-4 from Knoppix, though, I still had the
> problem. Thus I doubt it's a configuration error.
>
> In case it helps, though, here are my lspci output and my XF86Config-4:
>
> lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
> 0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O
> Control Registers (rev 02)
> 0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration
> Process Registers (rev 02)
> 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
> Graphics Device (rev 02)
> 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
> Graphics Device (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev
> 03) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2
> (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI
> #3 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2
> EHCI Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
> 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev
> 03)
> 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage
> Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4) SMBus Controller (rev
> 03) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4)
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev
> 03)
> 0000:01:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus
> MultiMediaBay Controller
> 0000:01:0a.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus
> MultiMediaBay Controller
> 0000:01:0a.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx MultiMediaBay
> Accelerator
> 0000:01:0a.3 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3 SmartCardBus
> MultiMediaBay Controller
> 0000:01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM5705M
> 10/100/1000Base T (rev 02)
> 0000:01:0d.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG
> (rev 05)
> 0000:01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21
> IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
>
> and here's my XF86Config-4 (comments removed)
> Section "Files"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>         FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
> EndSection
> Section "Module"
>         Load    "GLcore"
>         Load    "bitmap"
>         Load    "dbe"
>         Load    "ddc"
>         Load    "dri"
>         Load    "extmod"
>         Load    "freetype"
>         Load    "glx"
>         Load    "int10"
>         Load    "record"
>         Load    "speedo"
>         Load    "type1"
>         Load    "vbe"
> EndSection
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver          "keyboard"
>         Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
> EndSection
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
>         Driver          "i810"
> EndSection
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
>         HorizSync       28-96
>         VertRefresh     50-75
>         Option          "DPMS"
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Device          "Generic Video Card"
>         Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
>         DefaultDepth    24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           1
>                 Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           4
>                 Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           8
>                 Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           15
>                 Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           16
>                 Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           24
>                 Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier      "Default Layout"
>         Screen          "Default Screen"
>         InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
>         InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
>         InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
> Section "DRI"
>         Mode    0666
> EndSection
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse

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