Re: regressions in X11R7 and/or firefox3?

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Craig Kulesa wrote:
> George Michaelson wrote:
> [...]
> > and also some very odd failure- to-paint in parts of the image. its 
> > picking up the state of the (virtual) root/desktop window in some 
> > alpha-channel regions of the display, outside of the core web view.
>
> Can you try setting Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" in the "Device" 
> section of your xorg.conf, and restarting X?
>
> This worked for me under NetBSD and FreeBSD, both using Xorg and Firefox 
> 3.  It looks like some image rendering optimizations have exposed bugs 
> in at least some Xorg servers.

The other workaround which may give better performance depending on your 
chipset is;

  Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
  Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

Solved the problem for me on i945 and i965 with xf86-video-intel.

Cheers,
Jared