Bug 62692
| Summary: | Remnants of previous desktop session remain after relogin. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Alexander Farley <afarley> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | alanh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-08-19 15:13:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Alexander Farley
2002-04-04 14:55:24 UTC
This is caused by pixels left around in memory - X should maybe clear those somehow, I'm not sure what the usual solution is. Indeed this is a video driver issue with clearing video memory. It has nothing to do with any given application. This is something that should likely be done in every one of the video drivers IMHO as a cosmetic clean up, however it is just that - cosmetic. What video card are you using? The problems occured when I was using a 3DLabs GVX1 Pro card/ glint driver. I have since switched to a FireGL2 and have not seen remnants of previous sessions again (though any comparison is unfair, since the fgl23 drivers are from ATI and not directly from XFree86 et al.). I have also used a Matrox G550, nVidia TNT2 M64, and nVidia geForce 2 MX 400 and I do not remember any of the three giving this effect. Please try the latest beta release of Red Hat Linux, with XFree86 updates from rawhide. There is a new 3Dlabs driver in our latest beta. I've also Cc'd Alan Hourihane, the glint driver maintainer. I will try the new driver today (8/19/2002) (I assume the Rawhide glint driver is the same as the beta, since limbo is not available on any of the ftp sites). Assuming the problem went away, and closing as fixed in current RAWHIDE |