Created attachment 155995 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Created attachment 155996 [details]
xorg.conf

If it matters, the gconf keys apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set and
apps/nautilus/preferences/background_filename are respectively set to "True" and
"/usr/share/backgrounds/tiles/Totally-New-Product-1.jpg".

(and i'm no fedora7, not core 6).

(s/no/on)

As Mike Harris requested me to do, I've tested that with an i386 OS. I've booted
the fedora 7 live CD and I confirm the same bug using it. 

Someone with an ATI x600se has also confirmed the bug on his system :
http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/files/Capture.png

And since someone using an Intel video chip has *not* confirmed the bug, I'm
changing the component to xorg-x11-drv-ati.

I'm using Livna's proprietary nVidia driver and experience the same issues... 
Must not be driver related?

Forgot to mention - F7/x86_64/nVidia

John, could you post a screenshot of how it represents itself on nVidia? (not
that we would fix your binary driver, but this may go back to nautilus component
after all).

Created attachment 156676 [details]
Nautilus file browser with scrolled window

Nautilus with a scrolled window...F7/x86_64/nVidia->livna/Beryl/Emerald

Created attachment 156680 [details]
Ogg screencast of Nautilus browser window

Also occurs when switching from View as Icons to List and back to Icons...even
if window doesn't have a scrollbar.

If I set a background image for Nautilus as described, I see the same
corruption. In addition, I see severe screen corruption with scrolling
gnome-terminal, just like that reported by another user for Ubuntu Feisty 6.6.3:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/99288

I suspect these might be different manifestations of the same bug. Note that for
gnome-terminal, the text is corrupted while scrolling even if no background is
set. The corruption appears to be chunks of bitmaps from other applications and
other portions of the scrolling terminal.

I am using Fedora 7 x86_64 with xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-4.fc7.x86_64, a Radeon
9250 AGP, detected as a RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] with the "radeon" driver.

It is worth noting that this bug was not present (for gnome-terminal [did not
test nautilus]) in FC6 with

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1.fc6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6.x86_64

The bug appeared as soon as I upgraded to Fedora 7 and 

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-4.fc7.x86_64
kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.x86_64

and is still present with kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7.x86_64 .

'Option "RenderAccel" "Off"' appears to fix the gnome-terminal corruption but
does not fix the nautilus corruption described in the original report (switching
view icons-> list -> icons is the best way to reproduce this).

I can confirm disabling RenderAccel doesnt fix the problem.

At last, I have graphical corruption with something else than nautilus. I was
trying to resize a gnome card game : http://livna.org/~anvil/Capture-GnomeGame.jpg

Restart that card game hasnt helped. The window was in the state you can see in
the window shot. Resizing it *big* cleaned the game window until i attempted to
play.

Right after, nautilus whole desktop became 'garbaged' too. Selecting items made
them readable. xrefresh was no help : i saw the refresh pass, but it stayed
garbaged.

This is really annoying now.

Also *could* or not be related : I'm a galeon user and and killing it doesn't
seem to free all the memory it was using.

Hm. The bug is also in Fedora 8... and using the ATI proprietary fglrx driver
too o_O

Was going to open a new bug, but the RenderAccel = "off" fixed gnome-terminal
corruption on my 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
(self-compiled xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.196, 195 had it too). Problems started
occurring between F7 and F8, and did not happen immediately after starting up X,
after a few hours it started happening. Corruption looks similar to screenshots
provided (e.g. parts of a firefox window showing up as a 3cm tall "bar" spanning
g-t window)

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" appeared to fix things too, but then there was
another kind of corruption which left boxes around icons selected on the desktop
(and some odd slowness all around), so that wasn't really a cure either...

No nautilus scroll issues here. Running F8/i386.

Not the same problem i think. Since rederaccel=off doesnt fix the issue with
nautilus, and that i've never seen corruption with gnome-terminal.

Created attachment 298959 [details]
Nautilus file browser scrolling background image bug

Similar problems in Fedora 8 on different PC...i386/F8/ATI Radeon Xpress
200/fglrx...exact same issue...

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Still a problem in fedora 9.

Dams,
Could you try in Fedora 10 without any xorg.conf ; and if the bug is still present, please attach screenshots directly to this bug report. Full dmesg output and /var/log/Xorg.0.log as uncompressed text attachments to this bug would help, too.
Thanks.

Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

A similar problem is reported as fixed in Hardy Heron:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/120858

Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.