On a Fedora 18 machine, applying the recent updates will trigger a frequent situation where Firefox is just a big black rectangle, you cannot see the contents nor the window decorations. The Firefox process is responsive, you can quit it normally using GNOME Shell's overview's close buttons. doing "yum downgrade x*-intel" makes the problem go away, so I can only guess that this is caused by the recent updates to the Intel driver in Fedora 18. From lspci: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 01da Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43 Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at ecb8 [size=8] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: i915 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 01da Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at feb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
(In reply to comment #0) > doing "yum downgrade x*-intel" makes the problem go away, so I can only > guess that this is caused by the recent updates to the Intel driver in > Fedora 18. And when you did this, what did you downgrade to and from?
xorg-x11-drv-intel.x86_64 2.21.2-1.fc18 is currently the newest available version (I'm just guessing it was that one 3 days ago?), while the currently installed package that does not exhibit the bug is version 2.20.14.
Ah yes, I see that "xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm" is present in /var/cache/yum/x86_64/18/updates/packages/, so that was probably the version that was causing problems.
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I could reproduce the problem with a Fedora 19 and xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.12-2.fc19.x86_64 drivers.
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