Deer Park preferences window corrupted

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 13:40:38 UTC 2005


On 9/7/05, Sean <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> On an up to date -development system the preferences window of Deer Park
> alpha 2 is unusable. While some of the text can just barely be read, most
> of it is unreadable. Only the 6 tabs along the top of the window can be 
> read, but even they are broken up and hard to read.
> 
> Most of the Edit->Preferences window is see-through (ie. as you move the
> window around you actually see the contents of the desktop, or window
> below it). If a screen shot would help, i'd be happy to post one. 
> 
> Nobody else seems to mention this problem in Bugzilla or in the archives
> so i'm wondering if this isn't actually a problem with the X.org<http://X.org>server?
> Bugzilla 155213 does mention a problem with i865 video, but i'm not sure 
> it's related.
> 
> Perhaps the Deer Park preferences window is supposed to be translucent and
> that feature is just not working on X.org <http://X.org> for i865 based 
> video? Dmesg
> does seem to show the kernel complaining a bit, at least about the 
> framebuffer:
> 
> Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
> agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
> agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
> 
> intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G 
> chipsets
> intelfb: Version 0.9.2
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
> intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 865G, aperture size 128MB, stolen memory 
> 16252kB
> intelfb: Mode is interlaced. 
> intelfb: Initial video mode is 1024x768-32 at 70.
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> 
> intelfb: ring buffer : space: 63368 wanted 65472
> intelfb: lockup - turning off hardware acceleration
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
> [drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0:
> mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary 
> 
> Looking for someone to give me a nudge in the right direction as to how to
> tackle this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean


Try renaming your .mozilla directory, restart firefox, and see if it helps. 

[I sort of remember some issue with something there.]

tom
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Tom London
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