Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (427 mails)

[Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:45 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>        Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch 
> laptop, and
> upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost
> completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is
> happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words:
>
> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.jpg
>
> [139k]
>
>        As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% 
> transparent
> as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This can make it
> quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried
> it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference.
>
>        Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any 
> ideas on
> this one??

The app may not deal with ARGB visuals properly.  Does setting
XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 when starting the app help?

Alex
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