Bug#470177: xserver-xorg-core: browswe display does not update cleanly
Michael Dressel wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Michael Dressel wrote:
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>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Michael Dressel wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Brice Goglin wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>>>
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> I found that Epiphany and iceweasel work properly under KDE. I
> upgraded to the
> latest Gnome version in sid. And still Epiphany and iceweasel don't
> display correctly. Should this bug be prpergated to some gnome list?
Do you have any fancy effects enabled in KDE or Gnome (compiz-like,
transparency, ...)? Apart from these, I don't know what could justify
having epiphay/iceweasel render differently.
Brice
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