Bug 474995 - Turning on Desktop Effects gives white screen on Intel 855GM
Summary: Turning on Desktop Effects gives white screen on Intel 855GM
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-i810
Version: 10
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-06 14:08 UTC by Uno Engborg
Modified: 2009-09-21 14:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-09-21 14:34:39 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Output of glxinfo (7.18 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-06 14:10 UTC, Uno Engborg
no flags Details
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (798 bytes, text/plain)
2008-12-06 14:12 UTC, Uno Engborg
no flags Details
Output of xdpyinfo (2.77 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-06 14:13 UTC, Uno Engborg
no flags Details
Xorg log (77.58 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-06 14:14 UTC, Uno Engborg
no flags Details
Xorg.setup.log (1.93 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-06 14:15 UTC, Uno Engborg
no flags Details
Output of lsmod (2.54 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-06 14:16 UTC, Uno Engborg
no flags Details

Description Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:08:07 UTC
Description of problem:

When turning on "Desktop effects" the screen goes white on intel 855GM (Thinkpad R50e).


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


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.In gnome "System"->"Preferences"->"Look and Feel"->"Desktop Effects"
2.In the "Desktop Effects" dialog presss "Enable Desktop"
3.
  
Actual results:
The screen goes white

Expected results:
A nice compiz desktop with dropshadows and other cool stuff, like it was in Fedora 9 and earlier.

Additional info:

Output of lspci contains the following line:
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

I have attached the output of glxinfo. When running glxinfo you also get the following error:

[intel_init_bufmgr:592] Error initializing buffer manager.

Comment 1 Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:10:51 UTC
Created attachment 325993 [details]
Output of glxinfo

Running glxinfo also produces the following errer:
[intel_init_bufmgr:592] Error initializing buffer manager.

Comment 2 Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:12:22 UTC
Created attachment 325994 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Comment 3 Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:13:27 UTC
Created attachment 325995 [details]
Output of xdpyinfo

Comment 4 Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:14:40 UTC
Created attachment 325996 [details]
Xorg log

Comment 5 Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:15:42 UTC
Created attachment 325997 [details]
Xorg.setup.log

Comment 6 Uno Engborg 2008-12-06 14:16:44 UTC
Created attachment 325998 [details]
Output of lsmod

Comment 7 Dave Airlie 2008-12-09 03:17:34 UTC
please update to the latest mesa/kernel/xorg-x11-drv-i810 packages and retest.

Comment 8 Uno Engborg 2009-01-06 16:23:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> please update to the latest mesa/kernel/xorg-x11-drv-i810 packages and retest.

Works!
Thanks

Comment 9 Vedran Miletić 2009-09-21 14:34:39 UTC
Closing per comment #8.


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