Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

[pk]

If anyone else encounters this, I've found a solution to my problems:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Catalyst_10.6.2F10.7_:_black.2Fgrey.2Fwhite_boxes.2Fartifacts_in_firefox.2Fthunderbird

http://phoronix.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-24323.html

Apparently it's the new 2D acceleration scheme that's buggy...

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

[pk]

On 2010-07-26 17:07, Alex Schuster wrote:

 Good luck. I have tried the radeon driver from time to time, but never had 
 any real success with it. Well, it is working now on one machine, but I 
 need TV-Out, and I have temporarily given up on finding out what's wrong 
 there, and stick to old kernel, old X and old ati-drivers that still 
 support this old card.
 On my main computer, radeon drivers get better and better. That is, X now 
 starts, it even does 3D acceleration now, but it crashes when I move the 
 mouse pointer onto the KDE4 panel.

Ok, good to know. Thanks to all who replied!

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

[Jake Moe]

 On 07/26/10 12:58, pk wrote:
 (seems like this message got lost somehow...)

 Hi!

 Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey)
 so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts
 below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window,
 or parts thereof are not redrawn, just cleared, which makes it hard to
 see web pages and mail. In order to force a redraw I have to resize the
 app, which is annoying.

 I run the latest ati binary ati-drivers-10.6 which ran fine with the
 previous versions, so I don't think that's the problem.

 Does anyone else see this problem or know the solution? It's only
 firefox, seamonkey and thunderbird that exhibits this problem.

 x11-libs:cairo-1.8.10:20100723-161942.log
 x11-plugins:enigmail-1.1.2-r1:20100723-172804.log
 www-client:mozilla-firefox-3.6.7:20100723-165946.log
 www-client:seamonkey-2.0.6:20100723-165841.log
 xulrunner-1.9.2.7-r1:20100723-163329.log
 mail-client:thunderbird-3.1.1:20100723-172616.log

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

[pk]

On 2010-07-27 01:58, Jake Moe wrote:

 I had a similar issue the other day with Thunderbird (I've been trying
 Chromium lately, so I can't comment on Firefox).  I ended up changing
 drivers from fglrx to radeon, and the issue went away.  I also was
 seeing a slow redraw of xterm windows when I switched desktops in
 FVWM; I could see the window being drawn from top to bottom.  That too
 improved with the radeon driver.  However, this is a new build (got a
 new work laptop the other day), so I can't comment on whether older
 versions of Thunderbird had similar issues.

Ok, thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for the open source
drivers to mature so that I can rely on them for my needs (incl.
gaming). Perhaps it's time to check them out... But, again, since I've
been running the ati-drivers-10.6 for a couple of weeks without problems
(that includes previous versions of firefox, thunderbird and seamonkey)
and I upgraded thunderbird, firefox and seamonkey at the same time leads
me to think that something's changed within these apps (and I only have
this problem in those three apps)...

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:58 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
 Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey)
 so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts
 below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window,
 or parts thereof are not redrawn, just cleared, which makes it hard to
 see web pages and mail. In order to force a redraw I have to resize the
 app, which is annoying.

Not directly related to your problem (maybe), but I've noticed that
since recent versions, Mozilla applications performance in NX server
is terrible! The screen redraws like crazy and it's almost impossible
to use Thunderbird or Firefox anymore. (I've also noticed this with
certain KDE/Qt programs as well, with Akregator being the worst one.)

Older Mozilla programs like Seamonkey 1.x still work great, though. So
I'm not sure if they're doing some kind of optimized drawing or some
trick that's not fully supported everywhere...

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

[Alex Schuster]

pk writes:

 Ok, thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for the open source
 drivers to mature so that I can rely on them for my needs (incl.
 gaming). Perhaps it's time to check them out... But, again, since I've
 been running the ati-drivers-10.6 for a couple of weeks without
 problems (that includes previous versions of firefox, thunderbird and
 seamonkey) and I upgraded thunderbird, firefox and seamonkey at the
 same time leads me to think that something's changed within these apps
 (and I only have this problem in those three apps)...

Good luck. I have tried the radeon driver from time to time, but never had 
any real success with it. Well, it is working now on one machine, but I 
need TV-Out, and I have temporarily given up on finding out what's wrong 
there, and stick to old kernel, old X and old ati-drivers that still 
support this old card.
On my main computer, radeon drivers get better and better. That is, X now 
starts, it even does 3D acceleration now, but it crashes when I move the 
mouse pointer onto the KDE4 panel.

Wonko