221141 – www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.x black img display

Bug 221141 - www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.x black img display

Summary: www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.x black img display

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Duplicates (1):	228251 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2008-05-09 22:34 UTC by Caleb Cushing
Modified:	2009-05-06 11:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Description Caleb Cushing 2008-05-09 22:34:24 UTC

sometimes images aren't displayed.. just a black box.

http://mephistoblog.com/

reproduces this issue. I'll also attache a screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Caleb Cushing 2008-05-09 22:35:30 UTC

Created attachment 152709 [details]
screenshot showing problem

Comment 2 Caleb Cushing 2008-05-18 11:58:42 UTC

still an issue. any ideas if this is known upstream?

Comment 3 Caleb Cushing 2008-05-18 14:24:25 UTC

decided to go hunting and found upstream.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831

it seems to be an Xorg bug 

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15098

this is an Xorg.conf work around (I haven't tested yet).

Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"

I think that's in the driver section.

I'm not sure if this should be marked resolved or not but the xorg herd should be CC-ed

Comment 4 Caleb Cushing 2008-05-18 14:54:25 UTC

testings on problematic site confirms fix. it goes in the video card driver section of Xorg.conf.

Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-12 13:32:05 UTC

X11, please read https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15098 and tell your opinion.

Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-12 22:18:14 UTC

Things are moving toward EXA. I don't think they're there yet, though. We could probably pull the same patch from Fedora to work around it:

* Thu Mar 13 2008 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> 1.4.99.901-7.20080310
- xserver-1.5.0-xaa-sucks: Disable XAA offscreen pixmaps by default.  They're
  almost always a performance loss anyway.  Use Option "XaaOffscreenPixmaps"
  to turn them back on.

I just asked ajax whether he'd like to take it upstream.

Comment 7 Sven 2008-06-18 19:18:41 UTC

I can confirm this bug still exists in www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0 (final!).

Especially, if you zoom in some images on some webpages turn black. An example is:
1) goto http://www.djh.de/
2) press Ctrl + (zoom in)

Comment 8 Sven 2008-06-18 19:24:21 UTC

OK, i switched to EXA and this bug is gone. So now i worry about Bug 213841.

Comment 9 Caleb Cushing 2008-06-19 09:27:26 UTC

I believe I read that upstream is going to make

Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"

default. I tried exa, it fixed it but it made my system run at the speed of turtles.

Comment 10 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-19 11:26:52 UTC

*** Bug 228251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Petr Zima 2008-07-02 07:27:46 UTC

I confirm this bug on my system (Radeon 9200SE, xorg-server-1.4.2, xf86-video-ati-6.9.0). Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" or switching to EXA (which has other flaws) solves the problem.

Comment 12 Bob Raitz 2008-07-06 08:40:17 UTC

This is also a bug for me as well.

Comment 13 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-06 11:07:58 UTC

XAA no longer uses offscreen pixmaps by default in 1.5.3 and newer. There's nothing the mozilla herd has to fix anymore.

Closing fixed.

Thanks