Re: Text disappears in Firefox/Thunderbird

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 6, 2008, at 18:51, Alex Hanson wrote:

> Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > There's still 2D acceleration that may be buggy with some chips. For
> > example the "nv" driver has caused rendering problems in firefox  
> > for me
> > in the past.
> >
> > Look for something like:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >   ...
> >   Option     "NoAccel" "True"
> > EndSection
>
> Using the above option fixed the problem, yet made scrolling  
> unbearably slow. So unless there is some fix for that, I guess I'm  
> stuck with the text problem.
>
> I'm using the radeon driver, for what it's worth.
>
> My Xorg log identifies my chip as follows:
>
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9800SE AH (AGP)" (ChipID =  
> 0x4148)
>
> I don't suppose a fix is currently available, but it's nice to  
> pinpoint my problem, to some degree. Thanks a lot for your help.

Hmm, I'd check if the radeon driver enables XRender acceleration by  
default. There's an option to control it, you may want to turn it off.

have fun
Michael

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