Bug 73475
Summary: | Bad: Incomplete screen rendering | ||||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <the.schafferts> | ||||||
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> | ||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | blizzard | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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Last Closed: | 2004-08-30 04:17:01 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Bug Blocks: | 82776 | ||||||||
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-09-05 04:52:17 UTC
Working great here. I am not supprised that it works for you. It seems to be a problem with either the video card or a combination of the video card and the CPU. None of the other people that are running any 7.3 version of Red Hat have the problem except me. For the record Mozilla and Red Hat 7.3.x has never worked on this computer. The last version of Netscape to work was 4.7x. Over to mike to have a look. I found a solution, here goes: 1. I installed a GeForce 4 MX 420 which caused the ATI Radeon 8500 to be uninstalled. The MX 420 worked just fine. 2: I reinstalled the ATI Radeon 8500 which caused the GeForce 4 MX 420 be uninstalled. 3. After re-installation of the ATI Radeon 8500 the problem was no longer present. Is there an easier way to have the system uninstall and reinstall the driver. It sounds to me like perhaps anaconda and redhat-config-xfree86 might perhaps be configuring things differently from each other. Not sure however. In order to troubleshoot this, I will need a copy of your X server config file and log file from when the problem is present, and another copy of both from when the problem does not occur. Are you positive in step 3 above that the problem does not recur? Installing/uninstalling drivers wont have any effect. Whatever the problem is, it is a coincidence that this appears to solve the problem. The problem either will occur all the time, or else something in the configuration is being changed, and we just need to determine what it is. Can you attach the not-working and working X config and log files? Also, please provide the output of: lspci -vn Thanks. Created attachment 76808 [details]
Requested log files
I have attached the log files and the lspci -vn listing. I do not have any files that I am sure are from when the system problem existed. The only way I know to cause the problem to reappear is to reload 7.3.94 from scratch. Do you know of a simpler was to recreate the problem? It sounds to me like perhaps anaconda and kudzu might be configuring things differently from each other. Please attach all files that are text content as individual text file attachements in all bug reports for ease and speed of viewing while troubleshooting. Created attachment 89712 [details]
log files and config files
First the problem: After installing Red Hat 8.0 Mozilla 1.0.1-24 would not correctly update the screen. Pieces of the screen would paint while others did not. Moving the mouse caused different parts of the screen to repaint. I found a solution, here goes: 1. I removed the Radeon 8500 video adapter from the computer and installed a Nvidia Rivia TNT2. 2. Restarted the computer and the new video adpater was detected. 3. When XWindows started the mouse did not work correctly so I ran redhat-config-mouse, still did not work correctly, so I ran redhat-config-xfree86 and restarted the computer. 4. After the restart everything worked just fine. 5. I then removed the Nvidia Rivia TNT2 and reinstalled the Radeon 8500 video adapter. 6. Restarted the computer and the new video adpater was detected. 7. When XWindows started the mouse did not work correctly so I ran redhat-config-mouse, still did not work correctly, so I ran redhat-config-xfree86 and restarted the computer. 8. After the restart everything worked just fine. The experiment 1. I replaced the working XF86Config with the bad one and restarted the computer the problem was back. 2. I replaced the bad XF86Config with the good one and restarted the computer and the problem was gone. Analysis The real problem was that file generated by anaconda was not correct and the file generated by redhat-config-xfree86 was good. The easy fix to the problem would have been to have run redhat-config-xfree86 in the first place. The files are attached. This problem sounds like it was a hardware problem with your specific setup. I'm unable to reproduce any rendering corruption using mozilla on radeon hardware. Setting status to "WORKSFORME". Please upgrade to Fedora Core 2 and if the problem persists, feel free to open a new bug report on X.Org bugzilla at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. If you do encounter the issue again, you can paste your upstream bug report URL from X.Org bugzilla here, and we will track the issue in upstream bugzilla. |