Bug 673873

Summary:	intel [865G] Windows flash rapidly or don't appear if Desktop Effects are on in KDE and GNOME
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Anomyous Anomyous <jrswagswegie1996>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	eich, forgotten_vj9ItF7l4D, greywolf82, jrswagswegie1996, mark.gonnelly
Version:	Milestone 5
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Anomyous Anomyous 2011-02-22 01:11:16 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 (BT-football) Firefox/3.6.13

When I started GNOME in openSUSE 11.4 RC 1 after an upgrade from 11.3, I tried to load a window, and it didn't appear. If I clicked the window, it flashed rapidly for a second before turning off. There also was no title bar on the window. This happened with every program and applets on the panel. The Computer menu was down. I figured out how to start Run by hitting Alt+F2, then typed in gnome-control-center. I clicked on the title bar (or where it should have been), put my finger over Desktop effects, then clicked in that area of the screen. I did the same to uncheck Desktop Effects. It stopped flashing immediately, and I logged in and out and fixed it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgrade from 11.3
2.Log in
3.Try to open a window or look at the blank panel
Actual Results:  
Graphics issues


It happened in KDE also. My hardware was on a Dell B110, and my video card was part of the Intel 865G chipset.

Comment 1 Anomyous Anomyous 2011-02-22 01:12:53 UTC

Forgot to mention that I didn't have Desktop Effects on in 11.3 before the upgrade. A similar thing keeps happening in 11.2 and 11.3

Comment 2 Anomyous Anomyous 2011-02-22 01:13:17 UTC

Forgot to mention that I didn't have Desktop Effects on in 11.3 before the upgrade. A similar thing keeps happening in 11.2 and 11.3

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2011-03-17 17:58:54 UTC

Could you give it another try with openSUSE 11.4 final? Testing with a LiveCD should be sufficient. Thanks.

Comment 4 Forgotten User vj9ItF7l4D 2011-05-05 21:21:46 UTC

The exact same problem seems to be present in openSUSE 11.4 final on a system I service for family (7 years old HP desktop system with on board Intel Graphics Card). Had to disable desktop effects in KDE when I installed 11.4 Also had to change the desktop theme to Aya to be able to read anything (task manager changed colour to black, with black text). 

If you need more info (specific type of graphics card, etc) let me know. I'll try and answer you as soon as I get the chance.

Comment 5 Forgotten User vj9ItF7l4D 2011-05-07 18:13:11 UTC

I can now confirm that this problem is still present in openSuSE 11.4 final.

System: 
Linux 2.6.37.6-0.5-default i686
openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
KDE 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6"

Graphics card: Intel Corporation, model 865 G
2D-driver:  intel
3D-driver:  Unknown classic (7.10)

RPM version information from Yast:
xorg-x11-driver-input 7.6-29.1
xorg-x11-driver-video 7.6-53.56.1
xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy 2.9.1-8.1
xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau 0.0.16_20110115_b795ca6-3.1
xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd 1.3.0_20100512_80ba041-2.1

Note: This is after last weeks online update of the intel drivers

If I remember correctly the desktop effect where working in openSuSE 11.2 on the same system.

Happy bug hunting!

Comment 6 Marco Stornelli 2011-06-14 11:10:02 UTC

I had the same problem. I've got an 865g too. Two way to solve for me: use 'nomodeset' but without to use any desktop effects or force X to use intel legacy driver. With the last option I can use even the desktop effects. I think it's a driver problem however.

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2011-09-01 14:28:16 UTC

Unfortunately we do not have the ressources to address that issue
still for openSUSE 11.4. Could you please test again with
a current Milestone of openSUSE 12.1, whether the issue still
exists and give me feedback about the result? Thanks.

Comment 8 Forgotten User vj9ItF7l4D 2011-09-11 11:09:59 UTC

The problem is still present in openSUSE 12.1 milestone 5.

There is a sleight improvement over openSUSE 11.4: the main windows of applications now appear more or less usable after startup. 

But a lot of problems remain with the Ditesktop Effects turned on. Pop up messages make a mess of the screen. I.e. the " Dialog Parent" desktop effect should darken the parent window, but this only works for small parts of the parent window after hovering over them with the mouse pointer.

Switching of Desktop Effects solves all these problems. 

I could not test with the "nomodeset" startup parameter, as the keyboard setup seems completely broken on 12.1. Should I file a separate bug report for that, or is it a known problem.

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2011-09-11 14:33:21 UTC

(In reply to comment #8)
> I could not test with the "nomodeset" startup parameter, as the keyboard setup
> seems completely broken on 12.1. Should I file a separate bug report for that,
> or is it a known problem.

Unknown to me. Please report seperately. Thanks!

Comment 10 Mark Gonnelly 2011-10-06 00:50:22 UTC

I wonder if this is the same issue as https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679210

Comment 11 Egbert Eich 2011-10-10 10:48:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #10)
> I wonder if this is the same issue as
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679210

No, the hardware is is different. But it's most likely a duplicate of  bnc#593463.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 593463 ***