| Summary: | Gnome white background and flickering problem | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | claire robinson <eeeemail> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | eatdirt, ennael1, hugo.pereira, mageia, olav, philippel, rverschelde, tmb |
| Version: | Cauldron | Keywords: | NEEDINFO, Triaged |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | 4alpha3 4beta1 | ||
| Source RPM: | CVE: | ||
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Description
claire robinson
2013-10-01 16:44:19 CEST
Adding some people. CC:
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ennael1, hugo, olav, tmb Created attachment 4399 [details]
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Better seen with a video probably but this shows basically what i mean.
Created attachment 4400 [details]
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Same problems was previously noticed on gnome installed from classic isos It does seem much better on the installed system from the livecd than in live mode too.
Chris Denice
2013-10-01 21:31:45 CEST
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dirteat
Manuel Hiebel
2013-10-07 12:38:09 CEST
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Triaged I'm seeing this issue as well. I have an E2-1800 apu equipped with a radeon HD7340. I've tried both the free radeon driver and closed fglrx driver and both result in the wrong background being drawn, significant flickering when moving windows around and the absence of the notification area. So this problem seems driver independent. Interestingly enough, upon initially switching from radeon to fglrx, the first reboot yielded a stable session where the background was correctly drawn and it was flicker free. The notification bar was still absent however. In the end though, subsequent reboot yielded a glitchy session. CC:
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philippe.l Looks like this has been reported upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709313 The workaround seems to work partially work. I'm on a setup with 2 monitors, one laptop monitor and one desktop monitor. My main setup is to use the desktop monitor as my primary monitor and I usually disable the laptop monitor. Switching the primary monitor around and back seems to stop the flickering. However, only certain monitor setups result in the background being properly drawn. If I enable both monitors or only use the laptop monitor alone, the background is drawn correctly. Claire, do you happen to have a multi monitor setup? I don't see the graphics problems described above when using my laptop's monitor by itself. No, not even close. Old systems here with nvidia GPU. I'm thinking about opening a separate bug report for the notification bar being MIA. In the mean time, do you think this bug is a duplicate of bug 11267 or vice versa? I feel really dumb. I just now realised that calling the notification area is different in this new version of gnome. I was used to moving my cursor to the bottom right corner to make the notification area appear. However it is now changed that you need to move the cursor anywhere to the bottom edge of the screen except near the corners. Mystery of the missing notification now solved. Valid 4beta1 (1st build) It differs between ISOs and only seems to affect the live session. LiveCD and 32bit LiveDVD flicker white with screen corruption when closing windows or returning from the clock screen (which has a solid blue background). https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4147101/mga4b1/Screenshot%20from%202013-11-01%2010_13_37.png Also flickers as the progress bar increases during installation and as the cursor moves over menu items, buttons, text input boxes and on/off the window. It also prevents the bottom task bar from opening. The 64bit LiveDVD starts with a green background and aside from that seems to behave normally, without the flickering or corruption. None of these issues are present in the installed system. Whiteboard:
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4alpha3 4beta1 Having said that. I just booted into an installation from gnome livedvd 64 and it is white and flickering :\ Just checked my notes on the pad http://bn.parinux.org/p/mageia4beta1. The 32bit LiveDVD is the green one without flickering. The LiveCD and 64bit LiveDVD are white and flickery. I got both the green background at one boot and the white one switching back to Mageia sometimes on an other boot, both with the 32bit LiveDVD (see http://bn.parinux.org/p/mageia4beta1 for round 2 ISOs) CC:
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remi Is this bug still valid in final Mageia 4? In cauldron? Keywords:
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NEEDINFO no it can be closed Status:
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RESOLVED |
