Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to figure out if I have a poorly configured video card (highly > probable) or if the problems that I'm having are actually bugs in the apps > (running sid, so also highly probable). > > The two biggest offenders are Galeon/Mozilla and AcrobatReader (I know I > should be using xpdf instead, but the last time I used it was about 3 years > ago and it was pretty much crap back then). These two apps will do two > different things to hose my screen. > > Galeon/Mozilla (I think Konqeror does the same thing.. yep) will keep on > drawing some of its edge widgets until it decides to quit, so I end up with > this patchwork pattern on my display that looks like the silver gradient on > the edges of a mozilla/galeon window. Most of the time the problem is fixed > when I move a new window over the affected portion of the display, forcing a > redraw of that piece. Sometimes not, though. > > Acroread will kind of do the same thing, but this time it draws a bunch of > little "black holes" all over my display. These are not removable by moving > a > new window over the affected area. The only way I can get rid of these is by > stopping my session and logging back in. > > My video card is an ATI Radeon 7200. I know that I don't have DRI correctly > configured because 'glxinfo' says that direct rendering is off. > > Can anybody tell me, should I just fix my video card (right now, just a 'to > do' list item), or are these software bugs. Checking the bug reports on > these > apps doesn't turn up anything very similar.
Since the four apps you mention all use different toolkits, I'd almost guarantee the problem is video-related. I don't think getting DRI working would help though. I'd try the vesa driver first (change the driver entry in XF86Config-4 to "vesa") and see if that works better. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
