From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 17:25:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDB7106564A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal4.es.net [198.124.252.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFF38FC14 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id XCQ74513; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:25:13 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id XCQ89612; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:25:12 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 93C7745010; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:25:12 -0800 (PST) To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:55:16 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1226942712_64090P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:25:12 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20081117172512.93C7745010@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.3.207 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Warren Block X-To_Domain: wonkity.com X-To: Warren Block X-To_Email: wblock@wonkity.com X-To_Alias: wblock Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3 displays pieces of desktop background X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:15 -0000 --==_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 > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > >> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:11:57 +0100 > >> From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder > >> 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--