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Created attachment 364269 [details] Screen full of panels and titlebars Description of problem: Blender menus do not work correctly; this is believed to be a bug in the Mesa dri drivers. There are two distinct manifestations of this bug. When kernel mode setting is not used (nomodeset boot parameter) pop-up menus appear as black (or white) boxes with no text in them. A workaround for this is to update Blender to 2.49b and set BLENDER_FORCE_SWAPBUFFERS in the environment. Then things appear to work correctly. However, when modesetting is used, mousing over the menus in the top bar causes the whole Blender window to be filled with copies of what's at the top of the screen (in most cases, gnome-panel and the titlebar of the Blender window). Moving the mouse around sometimes causes a pop-up menu to appear, but the rest of the window is filled with garbage. BLENDER_FORCE_SWAPBUFFERS has no effect on this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): blender-2.49b-1.fc11.x86_64 mesa-dri-drivers-7.6-0.1.fc11.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.4-0.1.fc11.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-14.fc11.x86_64 kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Additional info: This bug may be relevant. It claims to have been fixed upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21774 Graphics card info: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] [1002:7183] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0d02] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at d0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at 1100 [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon 02:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300 Pro] (Secondary) [1002:71a3] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:0d03] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at d0510000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied>
Created attachment 364270 [details] A menu appears, but screen is corrupted
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I've updated 'xorg*' and 'mesa*' (no matches) from updates-testing (and everything else from updates) and the system is running: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.4-0.3.fc11.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-14.fc11.x86_64 mesa-dri-drivers-7.6-0.1.fc11.x86_64 mesa-libGL-7.6-0.1.fc11.x86_64 blender-2.49b-1.fc11.x86_64 No change in any of the above behaviour.
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