https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743956
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743956#c8
--- Comment #8 from Igor Strelnikoff
I think I have the same or a closely related problem under Gnome 3.2 (using Gnome Shell, not the fallback mode) and KDE 4.x on a Laptop with a ATI Mobility FireGL T2 card (RV350 chip), using the kernel radeon driver (tested on openSUSE and vanilla kernels up to 3.2.4):
Whenever I open a menu in an application, the menu window is first filled with garbage before the real menu contents are drawn. Some things I noted:
- The "garbage" is not completely random, but always uses the same colors as the menu. This indicates that memory positions are computed incorrectly when copying the window contents from one buffer to another.
- For most menus, this happens only when the menu is opened for the first time; afterward, the menu appears immediately. After closing the menu and doing other things for some time, the problem occurs again. This indicates that drawing a window works as long as the contents of the menu window are cached on the graphics card, which could mean that the source of the bug is in the transfer from system memory to graphics memory.
- Top-level windows, pop-up windows provided by Gnome Shell (for example, the calendar window), and the window menus that are opened by right-clicking on the window title bar (which are supposedly drawn by the Mutter window manager) are not affected.
- As it occurs under KDE and Gnome (but not under non-compositing window managers), the problem is probably either a bug in the kernel driver, in the X server, or in one of the supporting libraries.
- The problem does not occur under Fedora 16. Since the Fedora kernel does not include any patches related to the radeon driver or memory management, this makes it less likely that the problem is caused by a kernel bug.
I have absolutely the same, still as you say. Fedora 16 is not used, I am constantly using opensuse. Tell me how to assemble the packages?! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.