Bug 485911 (ksplash)
| Summary: | Ksplash cannot determine screen resolution | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Joshua Covington <joshuacov> |
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | arbiter, fedora, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, smparrish, than |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-06-07 23:43:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Description
Joshua Covington
2009-02-17 12:43:39 UTC
I can confirm this, also happens on a Radeon 9200 SE, though in my case the remainder of the screen is black, not containing junk. Is it a driver problem? In my case anything else works fine but this. The rhgb is fine and there are no visible problems with the picture. Video and all effects are fine, too. My mashine uses gdm instead of kdm (updates since f6) and maybe this could be the cause. Maybe when ksplash starts it tries to determine the screen resolution so that in can center the splash dialog and gets wrong values from the system. Or maybe they are calculated the wrong way since when the loading is done it's fine. f9 doesn't have kms therefore I think it's a problem with kde not with the driver. I'm using KDM, so that can't be it. It could be a driver problem (mine is also ATI hardware), but why does it only affect KSplash and nothing else? Both your pictures are with the FedoraWaves theme, which is also what I am using on the affected machine. Are you also seeing this with F10's SolarComet? I cannot test it with f10 right now but I will till the end of the week. There is something else that I noticed. If you take a closer look at the upper side of the screen (on the photos) you'll see that this is a kind of dialog with 2 options. I cannot clearly identify it but when I click on it everything (the ksplash screen) disappears until the main desktops is shown. This makes me feel that ksplash is asking for something before accepting some "default" values for the screen resolution, which appear to be correct at the end. One more thing: in the last 3-4 weeks in a couple of times I got some message that says, that something has taken too long to complete and therefore it would be deaktivated. After this message all window effects are turned off and only logout/login or ctrl+alt+F12 can restart them. This whole thing makes me think that something with the openGL implementation or maybe with Compiz isn't working or has problems with older ati cards. However I'll test with f10 and report back. You're interpreting stuff which doesn't exist: > This makes me feel that ksplash is asking for something before accepting some > "default" values for the screen resolution, which appear to be correct at the > end. Nonsense. KSplash simply always disappears when you click on it. This has been a feature since forever. It has nothing to do with this bug. In fact I'm not sure it's a screen resolution issue at all (though it may well be one). > This whole thing makes me think that something with the openGL implementation > or maybe with Compiz isn't working or has problems with older ati cards. This also has nothing whatsoever to do with KSplash, it's a completely separate issue. I don't use desktop effects and I see this same issue. And KDE's desktop effects don't use Compiz. To clarify:
> I don't use desktop effects and I see this same issue.
I mean the KSplash issue, of course, not the "desktop effects have been deactivated" one. (There's nothing to deactivate, they're already off.)
What can it be? I tried to interpret what I saw but obviously I couldn't even come close to the problem. And I definitely don't know kde that good (at all). Is this a fedora or a kde bug? It seems to be a KDE bug triggered by the Fedora 9 splash screen theme. (In reply to comment #3) > I'm using KDM, so that can't be it. > > It could be a driver problem (mine is also ATI hardware), but why does it only > affect KSplash and nothing else? > > Both your pictures are with the FedoraWaves theme, which is also what I am > using on the affected machine. Are you also seeing this with F10's SolarComet? f10 with Solarcomet works fine. I changed the themes and the other two are also working fine. This appears (for me) only with f9 and the fedoraWaves theme, which I've customized. I've just editied the xml file for it. Changing version to F9 Since F9 is about to go EOL going to close this as WONTFIX. If you find this issue is showing up in either F10 or F11 please reopen this bug and change to the appropriate release. -- Steven M. Parrish - KDE Triage Master Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers |