Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:11:07 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3 displays pieces of desktop background Message-ID: <20081117171107.GA32856@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20081117162455.ABC5C45010@ptavv.es.net> References: <20081117061157.GA2003@reindeer.haidundneu23.net> <20081117162455.ABC5C45010@ptavv.es.net>
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--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:24:55AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:11:57 +0100 > > From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org > >=20 > > ## Mark Kirkwood (markir@paradise.net.nz): > >=20 > > > I'm on 7.1 Prerelease refreshed a few days ago. I've noticed that=20 > > > Firefox 3 (3.0.4, but 3.0.3 was the same) displays snippets from ones= =20 > > > desktop on some webpages (yahoo and youtube being the 2 most recent). > >=20 > > Image rendering was optimized in Firefox 3, so it breaks with a lot > > of xservers (seems as if some pixmap rendering code is broken in X > > and firefox triggers that problem). > > Try setting Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" to "true" in the "Device" > > section of your xorg.conf. >=20 > Christoph, >=20 > Thank yo so much for this suggestion. >=20 > I have been annoyed by this odd problem since I started using Firefox3 > and this finally make things work correctly. I think this needs to be in > a FAQ somewhere until/unless the Xorg driver is fixed. >=20 > In any case, I was seeing this with an ATI Radeon X300 M22 graphics > chipset. I don't seem to see it with my nVidia GeForce 7800 GT based > system. I don't THINK I see it with my old MGA Matrox G450 , but I > won't have my eyeballs in front of that system until next month, si I am > not sure. >=20 > Anyone seeing this with any other graphics device that does not use the > RADEON driver? The Radeon X 1650 Pro [RV535] has this problem (using XAA). The Radeon HD 3450 [RV620 IIRC] (which doesn't support XAA or EXA yet) does not display the problem. I tested it with both the ati and the radeonhd driver. They both gave the same result. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkhpasACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUQ/wCdGrXSwbWguR8UMHIBKK/ub/kW cvkAoJolQWZiukLECNn5qFrueswvYiF5 =PmHV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo--
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