Bug 1047197 - Nouveau inappropriately renders KDE desktop items transparent if desktop effects enabled
Summary: Nouveau inappropriately renders KDE desktop items transparent if desktop effe...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-29 22:27 UTC by bob
Modified: 2015-06-29 13:56 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 13:56:03 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
rpm -qv kernel libdrm xorg-x11-drv-nouveau mesa-dri-drivers (184 bytes, text/plain)
2014-01-07 22:46 UTC, bob
no flags Details
sample screen output with desktop effects enabled (825.80 KB, image/png)
2014-01-07 22:48 UTC, bob
no flags Details

Description bob 2013-12-29 22:27:16 UTC
Description of problem: Upgrade to F20 from F18. Upon entering KDE, desktop items are inappropriately drawn as fully transparent.  This includes the taskbar, the menu buttons, and any windows that are opened -- everything that's not the desktop background is rendered 100% transparent.  When mousing over some items in the menus, they will transiently become non-transparent for a moment, only when being moused over.  After mousing by them, they return to 100% transparency.  The result is that everything on the desktop is rendered 100% transparent and totally invisible.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

F20.  Nouveau xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64 :

How reproducible:

 Every time I enable desktop effects in KDE.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable desktop effects
2. restart kde
3.

Actual results:

Desktop items 100% transparent

Expected results:

Desktop items 0% transparent


Additional info:

# lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)

Comment 1 Ben Skeggs 2014-01-07 21:56:19 UTC
Can you give me the output of "rpm -qv kernel libdrm xorg-x11-drv-nouveau mesa-dri-drivers"

Comment 3 bob 2014-01-07 22:46:08 UTC
Created attachment 846861 [details]
rpm -qv kernel libdrm xorg-x11-drv-nouveau mesa-dri-drivers

rpm -qv kernel libdrm xorg-x11-drv-nouveau mesa-dri-drivers

Comment 4 bob 2014-01-07 22:48:37 UTC
Created attachment 846862 [details]
sample screen output with desktop effects enabled

Comment 5 bob 2014-10-03 18:59:34 UTC
Just did another install on bare metal and got the exact same result -- transparent/invisible menus in the KDE environment, attributable to Nouveau.

Install media was the F20 DVD.
Graphics card was an Nvidia 6600GT.

Getting rid of Nouveau & installing the NV proprietary driver fixed the problem.

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