Re: Screen corruption under Xen DOM0 in firefox

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Matthew Mondor wrote:

> David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> >         I'm trying Xen on my NetBSD 5.0 laptop and one thing I've
> >         moticed is that the Firefox window seems to suffer corruption
> >         when focus is gained/lost (this is under gnome on a Thinkpad
> >         T60p using the radeonhd driver on a ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
> >
> >         An example is at:
> >         http://mono.org/abs/xen-x11-corruption.png
> >
> >         Note that the 'Tools' on the menu bar has been garbled, as has
> >         part of the webpage.
> >
> >         Has anyone else seem anything similar?
>
> Under a desktop with an ATI radeon card I had some corruption with native
> firefox 3, but which only happened under some specific pages/tabs, so it
> seemed like a gecko bug to me...  I've not had any such problem with
> firefox 2 however.  No idea if this is related or not to your problem
> though.  The type of corruption I observed appeared different too.

        Interesting - I can reproduce it on firefox2 and thunderbird
        on this system but not on openoffice (for example). Did you
        see your issues on xen or straight i386? Were you using
        a radeon or radeonhd driver? Thanks

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