Bug#470177: xserver-xorg-core: browswe display does not update cleanly

[Michael Dressel <MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Michael Dressel wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Brice Goglin wrote:
>
> > Michael Dressel wrote:
> > > Package: xserver-xorg-core
> > > Version: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12
> > > Severity: important
> > >
> > > The display of the web browsers Epiphany and iceweasel seam not to  be
> > > updated properly. When I scroll down with the arrows horizontal stripes
> > > appear. When I move another window across the browser it leaves
> > > vertical and horizontal stripes. Clicking on the top bar of the browsers
> > > window causes a clean redisplay. But there are still corrupted regions
> > > around the slider bar.
> >
> > Any chance you upgrade xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video-ati to
> > unstable to see whether the problem occurs there too?
>
> Hi Brice,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> Aptitude complains about many conflicts when I try to update
> xserver-xorg-core to sid. I also tried to update the virtual package
> but that would cause conflicts too. So I didn't update.
>
> Is there still a way how I could try the xserver from sid without
> completely  upgrading to sid?

I finally upgraded xorg completely to sid. And I did upgrade iceweasel.
Unfortunately the problem remains. Could it be due to the graphics
library? I guess that is gtk2 for both iceweasel and epiphany?

(With etch there was no problem.)

> > Can you try with another driver instead of ati? Maybe vesa for instance?
> In xorg.conf I replaced the line:
> 	Driver		"ati"
> with:
> 	Driver		"vesa"
> I'm not sure if this is enough? The result was that I could not
> get into the GNOME desktop anymore.
>
>
>
> > Or s3 on the other board that seems to be installed in this machine?
> I did not try it yet. This is an on-board card which uses the processors RAM. 
> I could do it for a test if this would assist you?

Cheers,
Michael