Bug#431743: xbase-clients: [xsetroot] new background only seen after a window goes over it

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Leandro Penz wrote:
> The two machines I have with Lenny have this problem. They have
> different nvidia boards.
>
> I tried to downgrade xserver-xorg-core and it worked! The downgrade
> was the following:
> [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5 -> 1:7.1.0-16
> [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6 -> 2:1.1.1-21
> [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.1.5-2 -> 1:1.1.2-6
> [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1: 1.2.1-1 -> 1:1.1.1-3
> [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.0-1 -> 1:1.2.0-3
>
> The upgrade from 1.1 to 1.3 probably caused my problem.
>
> BTW, I am not using the nv driver, I use the proprietary nvidia driver.

I did a quick test here ('xsetroot -solid white' run after startx
/usr/bin/xterm), it seems to work fine. I have a Radeon board, so your
problem could be nVidia specific. Could you try with the nv free driver
instead of nvidia?

Thanks,
Brice