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| Summary: | White Screen of Death (desktop effects) | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 | Reporter: | Gerald Pfeifer <gp> |
| Component: | GNOME | Assignee: | E-mail List <gnome-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Critical | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | Beta 4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Product Management | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Attachments: | hwinfo | ||
Radeon, duplicate. Its trying to start compiz by default. I think touching ~/.config/compiz/disable-compiz should fix it for now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 440854 *** This indeed got fixed by removing .config/compiz. More importantly, unlikey previously, when testing this again with the current snapshot I got a dialog that informed me that "Desktop effects are not supported on your current hardware / configuration. Would you like to cancel enabling o desktop effects or run them anyway?" I did not get this for my previous test, and since this addresses the second point in my report and is not covered in the other, I'm wondering whether to change from DUPLICATE to FIXED? In any case, the new behavior is just fine, thank you! I experienced exactly the same warning dialog with a fresh install of 11.1 GM on a Dell Latitude D600 with an ATI Radeon RV250 chipset (see attachment #259942 [details] of bug #458934 for output of hwinfo --gfx --monitor). Could I suggest extending the warning dialog to explain a recovery procedure (e.g. rm .config/compiz/enable-compiz) ? I am also puzzled why the open source radeon driver is not whitelisted given that it supports 3D acceleration but I'll submit another bug for that. FYI submitted as bug #458960. |
Created attachment 250840 [details] hwinfo On my test machine (hwinfo attache), I was running the desktop effects control panel and think (quite sure) that when I activated desktop effects my screen went white. I still have a cursor, but everything else is completely white. This does not happen when I log into a KDE session on the same machine, and when killing the X server and starting a new GNOME session I get back to the white screen. I assume this must be a driver problem of sorts, but the user interaction leaves quite some room for improvement as well: if this is a risky operation it would be good to warn the user and switch back to normal mode if the user does not indicate success by confirming a dialog that pops up after the switch. Also, there was (and is, of course) no information whatsoever how to get back to any reasonable state.