[opensuse-kde] Re: context menus & window backgrounds, brief corrupt image
On Jul 04, 2012; 7:59am, polrus wrote:
i'm still experiencing this problem - it is not related with the video driver because i use both opensource ati and fglrx and the problem shows on both drivers.
disabling/enabling effects has nothig to do with it. DOes it also happen to anyone on 32bit system. I use 64 bit and maybe this problem affects only 64bit users?
I know this problem all too well since sometime back during openSUSE 11.4. I'm fairly sure that it didn't exist when 11.4 was first installed so maybe an update introduced a bug. It happens for me on two different 32-bit systems using old ATI cards and the free Radeon drivers. One is a seven-year-old laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9700, the other a desktop with a Radeon 9600 AGP 256mb card. Needless to say FGLRX support was dropped for this generation of cards about 3 years ago so free drivers are the only option. I think this issue is separate from the one others are experiencing with previous screen images filling the menus. I've seen that issue on other configurations in the past but this is more a case of patterns (grey, stripey) which sometimes fill the menu areas on the first click, sometimes subsequent clicks, fairly randomly. I've always taken it to be the most reliable symptom of more general problems with this card, its drivers or its KDE integration because I've had other general graphics instability issues from time to time. I've fiddled extensively with KDE system settings, desktop effects, Xorg arguments, modeset options. The desktop system sometimes does not show 3D / Gallium as available in KDE sysinfo whilst the laptop does. I even did a fresh reinstall of 12.1 on the laptop and set up KDE again manually rather than copying most of the configuration over, but the problem remains, although curiously on a second user account that I rarely use I don't see the problem so extensively. Desktop effects are on with that account but off on my main one since I was getting too frequent slow-downs and other troubles. The desktop machine had much more severe graphic corruption issues all over the screen. This is my parents' computer and since they are in another country, I'd upgraded it to 11.4, checked everything was fine for a couple of weeks and left them to it, only to hear some weeks later that all these issues had started (with no further updates applied), rendering it barely useable. On my next visit I upgraded it to 12.1 and the problem persisted. After much tinkering the only solution was to turn 3D off via the Xorg.conf file. But they still get these brief menu corruptions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
I also see this when installing on my test machine. I kind of gave up on getting it fixed I'm afraid. It's definitely a bug, but I haven't seen any progress on it whatsoever.
On Jul 04, 2012; 7:59am, polrus wrote:
i'm still experiencing this problem - it is not related with the video driver because i use both opensource ati and fglrx and the problem shows on both drivers.
disabling/enabling effects has nothig to do with it. DOes it also happen to anyone on 32bit system. I use 64 bit and maybe this problem affects only 64bit users?
I know this problem all too well since sometime back during openSUSE 11.4. I'm fairly sure that it didn't exist when 11.4 was first installed so maybe an update introduced a bug.
It happens for me on two different 32-bit systems using old ATI cards and the free Radeon drivers. One is a seven-year-old laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9700, the other a desktop with a Radeon 9600 AGP 256mb card. Needless to say FGLRX support was dropped for this generation of cards about 3 years ago so free drivers are the only option.
I think this issue is separate from the one others are experiencing with previous screen images filling the menus. I've seen that issue on other configurations in the past but this is more a case of patterns (grey, stripey) which sometimes fill the menu areas on the first click, sometimes subsequent clicks, fairly randomly. I've always taken it to be the most reliable symptom of more general problems with this card, its drivers or its KDE integration because I've had other general graphics instability issues from time to time.
I've fiddled extensively with KDE system settings, desktop effects, Xorg arguments, modeset options. The desktop system sometimes does not show 3D / Gallium as available in KDE sysinfo whilst the laptop does. I even did a fresh reinstall of 12.1 on the laptop and set up KDE again manually rather than copying most of the configuration over, but the problem remains, although curiously on a second user account that I rarely use I don't see the problem so extensively. Desktop effects are on with that account but off on my main one since I was getting too frequent slow-downs and other troubles.
The desktop machine had much more severe graphic corruption issues all over the screen. This is my parents' computer and since they are in another country, I'd upgraded it to 11.4, checked everything was fine for a couple of weeks and left them to it, only to hear some weeks later that all these issues had started (with no further updates applied), rendering it barely useable. On my next visit I upgraded it to 12.1 and the problem persisted. After much tinkering the only solution was to turn 3D off via the Xorg.conf file. But they still get these brief menu corruptions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
I recently switched to an NVidia card and the problem went away. Before I had had two different ATI cards that had the problem. -johnm On 07/05/2012 12:05 AM, Malvern Star wrote:
I also see this when installing on my test machine. I kind of gave up on getting it fixed I'm afraid. It's definitely a bug, but I haven't seen any progress on it whatsoever.
On Jul 04, 2012; 7:59am, polrus wrote:
i'm still experiencing this problem - it is not related with the video driver because i use both opensource ati and fglrx and the problem shows on both drivers.
disabling/enabling effects has nothig to do with it. DOes it also happen to anyone on 32bit system. I use 64 bit and maybe this problem affects only 64bit users?
I know this problem all too well since sometime back during openSUSE 11.4. I'm fairly sure that it didn't exist when 11.4 was first installed so maybe an update introduced a bug.
It happens for me on two different 32-bit systems using old ATI cards and the free Radeon drivers. One is a seven-year-old laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9700, the other a desktop with a Radeon 9600 AGP 256mb card. Needless to say FGLRX support was dropped for this generation of cards about 3 years ago so free drivers are the only option.
I think this issue is separate from the one others are experiencing with previous screen images filling the menus. I've seen that issue on other configurations in the past but this is more a case of patterns (grey, stripey) which sometimes fill the menu areas on the first click, sometimes subsequent clicks, fairly randomly. I've always taken it to be the most reliable symptom of more general problems with this card, its drivers or its KDE integration because I've had other general graphics instability issues from time to time.
I've fiddled extensively with KDE system settings, desktop effects, Xorg arguments, modeset options. The desktop system sometimes does not show 3D / Gallium as available in KDE sysinfo whilst the laptop does. I even did a fresh reinstall of 12.1 on the laptop and set up KDE again manually rather than copying most of the configuration over, but the problem remains, although curiously on a second user account that I rarely use I don't see the problem so extensively. Desktop effects are on with that account but off on my main one since I was getting too frequent slow-downs and other troubles.
The desktop machine had much more severe graphic corruption issues all over the screen. This is my parents' computer and since they are in another country, I'd upgraded it to 11.4, checked everything was fine for a couple of weeks and left them to it, only to hear some weeks later that all these issues had started (with no further updates applied), rendering it barely useable. On my next visit I upgraded it to 12.1 and the problem persisted. After much tinkering the only solution was to turn 3D off via the Xorg.conf file. But they still get these brief menu corruptions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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