Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:25:12 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3 displays pieces of desktop background Message-ID: <20081117172512.93C7745010@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:55:16 MST." <alpine.BSF.2.00.0811170944140.84043@wonkity.com>
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--==_Exmh_1226942712_64090P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:55:16 -0700 (MST) > From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, 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 > >> > >> ## Mark Kirkwood (markir@paradise.net.nz): > >> > >>> I'm on 7.1 Prerelease refreshed a few days ago. I've noticed that > >>> Firefox 3 (3.0.4, but 3.0.3 was the same) displays snippets from ones > >>> desktop on some webpages (yahoo and youtube being the 2 most recent). > >> > >> 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. > > > > Christoph, > > > > Thank yo so much for this suggestion. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Anyone seeing this with any other graphics device that does not use the > > RADEON driver? > > Happened on my MGA G450. Removing the XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps option from > xorg.conf shows that some scaled images in Firefox3 3.0.4,1 still render > as either black boxes or partly black. It used to also show the desktop > background in some windows, but I didn't see that in a quick check. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Thanks, Warren. Some day I'll replace that ancient system (a Pentium-III) with something more modern, but thanks to you, the G450 keeps doing the job for me. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1226942712_64090P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFJIaj4kn3rs5h7N1ERAjnnAKCQZ0iotpYlBz4Lyvve3dGcRVRUtQCgnmRI 8fu5EiuH8CJ9slEQeWTnhOg= =/GrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1226942712_64090P--
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