Bug 178677

Summary:	Desktop Background corrupted?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andy Hudson <andy.hudson>
Component:	xorg-x11	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	frank
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Hardware:	powerpc
OS:	Linux
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Description Andy Hudson 2006-01-23 08:27:50 UTC

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Description of problem:
After finishing an HTTP installation of FC5T2, booted into Gnome to find that the defauly background initially appeared fine and then suddenly corrupted so that it appears to have two sets of everything on the screen, ie panel, logo, bottom panel, several duplicate icons etc. However, only the top menu and the bottom 'minimise everything' are active as if it was normal. Can get the blue script (?)background to render fine, but not the default or the Mac OS alike background. Have not had chance to test other backgrounds.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login into Gnome
2.Experience Desktop Background wackiness
3.
  

Actual Results:  Corruption of background

Expected Results:  Background should have appeared correctly

Additional info:

I'm running FC5T2 on a Mac mini 1.25Ghz, with 256MB of RAM. Clean install (haven't run any upgrades/updates etc)

Comment 1 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-01-23 18:05:02 UTC

Sounds like a driver issue.

Comment 2 Andy Hudson 2006-01-24 19:53:30 UTC

Tried it under KDE and default background appears just fine - seems to be limited to Gnome. Could this 
just be specific to Gnome? Driver in system-config-display seems to be correct (ATI R280)

Comment 3 Frank Arnold 2006-01-25 12:49:10 UTC

Please try adding the following line to the Device section of your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

It might be related to this Xorg bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4456

Comment 4 Andy Hudson 2006-01-25 18:48:21 UTC

Added line as suggested and it seems to work - I can now see all the desktop
backgrounds under Gnome, including gradients with no problem.

Thanks for your help

Comment 5 Rahul Sundaram 2006-01-25 20:58:07 UTC

Thank you for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported
into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further
bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178433 ***