Bug 108410 – ugly dashed horizontal lines in KDE menu and titlebars when using xorg radeon driver

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Wolfgang 2005-10-07 10:39:29 UTC]

In KDE menu and window titlebars, ugly dashed 1-pixel horizontal lines appear.
This only happens when using xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 with the build in radeon driver,
not with the vesa driver. 

This is maybe not a kde, but an xorg problem, that shows up only there.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start KDE-3.4.1 using kdm on xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 Xserver with radeon driver
2.Klick on KDE-menu or open any window
3.move mouse over the menus or look at the window

Actual Results:  
Between some entries in the menu thin lines of garbage appear.
Same thing between window title bars and window menu.


It is a fresh install of the 2005.1 universal install + GRP CDs


dracula ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/GRPCD/"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emboss encode esd
fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde ldap
libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-07 12:27:57 UTC]

This is an internal Xorg problem, re-assigning.

Please give one of the newer ebuilds (ie, 6.8.99.15) a try and let us know if
the problem still exists.

Also, have you run a different version of X in the past on this machine?  And
what video card are you using?

[Comment 2 Wolfgang 2005-10-07 14:22:31 UTC]

Forgot: Video card is an ATI Radeon 9200 (an agp card)

I tried to install ati-drivers but they wont compile (which is not recognized 
by the ebuild btw)

I did not try older xorg versions.
Just tried to emerge newest xorg, but the highest version
offered by emerge is xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6, even after emerge --sync.
will try it again later.

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-07 22:59:08 UTC]

You need to unmask the 6.8.99 series (/etc/portage/package.unmask).

[Comment 4 Wolfgang 2005-10-08 04:14:06 UTC]

Just installed xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r3
This did not change anything. 

[Comment 5 Wolfgang 2005-10-08 04:26:22 UTC]

Created attachment 70136 [details]
screenshot of the problem: part of kdemenu and a windowbar

Sometimes the lines are more prominent.
Also spottet this on horizontal scrollbars.

[Comment 6 Wolfgang 2005-10-08 04:41:42 UTC]

Workaround:
The bug is not visible when using the "web" style for window decorations
and "platinum" for qtwidgets. 

[Comment 7 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-08 07:13:29 UTC]

Sounds like it could be a KDE issue to me, adding to CC.

This *could* be a hardware issue as well, I've seen similar on overheated video
cards (and theme changing would fix the problem sometimes then too).

Also, have you filed a bug (if you think it's a bug) for the ati-drivers
problem?  It would be nice if you could try those...

[Comment 8 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-10-08 08:50:33 UTC]

I see you reported it to bugs.kde.org already, adding a pointer: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114035 
 
However as you noted most probably this happens at a lower level than KDE... 
 

[Comment 9 Wolfgang 2005-10-08 09:30:30 UTC]

That other bug looked like a native kde bug to me because changing video driver
had no effect. But who knows.

Is there some xorg diagnostic program I could try that uses all drawing
primitives to produce a test-picture ?  

[Comment 10 Wolfgang 2005-10-08 09:36:48 UTC]

If that is a hardware bug, it would probably be somewhere in the 2d hardware
acceleration, since it only shows up at certain drawing operations. Is there a
way to selectivly turn off 2d acceleration for different operations ?

But I suspect a bug in the driver. Booting  windowsXP, graphic works fine.

[Comment 11 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-10-08 10:01:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Is there some xorg diagnostic program I could try that uses all drawing
> primitives to produce a test-picture ?  

x11perf

[Comment 12 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-03-31 19:26:24 UTC]

Please reopen if this remains an issue with modular X.