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Bug 561216 - Firefox has weird text rendering glitches
Summary: Firefox has weird text rendering glitches
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2015-09-22 23:07 UTC by Olivier Diotte
Modified: 2017-03-30 03:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Video showing a glitch and how to workaround it (test.mp4,270.02 KB, video/mp4)
2015-09-22 23:07 UTC, Olivier Diotte
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Description Olivier Diotte 2015-09-22 23:07:56 UTC
Created attachment 412608 [details]
Video showing a glitch and how to workaround it

This has been occurring over several versions (I'm currently using 40.0.3).
I am using an ATI video card if that matters:

04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240]



$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2.20.1 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.8.5, glibc-2.20-r2, 3.18.11-gentoo-oli x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.18.11-gentoo-oli-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-6300_Six-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     8130060 total,   4832548 free
KiB Swap:   31250428 total,  30973192 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 04:00:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p39
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p39::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.9-r1::gentoo, 3.3.5-r1::gentoo, 3.4.1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.2.2::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.17::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.5::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.20-r2::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

angelos
    location: /var/lib/layman/angelos
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Gentoo/"
LANG="en_CA.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j12"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bluray branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gdbm gif gimp glamor glut gnutls gpm gtk gzip hddtemp iconv idn imagemagick imap ipv6 jpeg lame latex lcms ldap libav libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors lzma lzo mad matroska mbox mime mmx mmxext mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit posix ppds pulseaudio qt3support qt4 rar rdesktop readline sdl seccomp session smp sndfile sockets sound speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink syslog sysvipc tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vorbis wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xmpp xpm xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="libreoffice_extensions_nlpsolver pdfimport presenter-console" LINGUAS="en fr" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeonsi radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-09-22 23:45:15 UTC
please paste the output of 'lsmod'.
Comment 2 Olivier Diotte 2015-09-23 16:13:40 UTC
$ lsmod 
Module                  Size  Used by
ecryptfs               85387  0 
encrypted_keys         18502  1 ecryptfs
trusted                17617  1 encrypted_keys
uinput                 17625  0 
bnep                   19624  2 
cdc_acm                32892  0 
cfg80211              478482  0 
binfmt_misc            17424  1 
vboxnetadp             25152  0 
vboxnetflt             22152  0 
vboxdrv               348362  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
ata_generic            12923  0 
pata_acpi              13053  0 
btusb                  32336  0 
bluetooth             442964  23 bnep,btusb
rfkill                 21979  3 cfg80211,bluetooth
pl2303                 19036  0 
cdc_ether              14198  0 
usbnet                 41970  1 cdc_ether
joydev                 17344  0 
r8152                  36820  0 
crct10dif_pclmul       14307  0 
crc32_pclmul           13133  0 
crc32c_intel           22094  0 
ghash_clmulni_intel    13230  0 
snd_hda_codec_via      23682  1 
snd_hda_codec_generic    67697  1 snd_hda_codec_via
microcode              20181  0 
radeon               1518856  3 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     47820  1 
snd_hda_intel          30352  10 
snd_hda_controller     30207  1 snd_hda_intel
serio_raw              13434  0 
i2c_algo_bit           13257  1 radeon
pcspkr                 12718  0 
snd_hda_codec         121733  5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
ttm                    84837  1 radeon
edac_core              52013  0 
drm_kms_helper         89586  1 radeon
edac_mce_amd           22310  0 
sp5100_tco             13999  0 
k10temp                13232  0 
fam15h_power           13113  0 
snd_hwdep              13554  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               100845  7 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
drm                   289339  6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
snd_timer              28778  1 snd_pcm
i2c_piix4              18070  0 
snd                    71520  25 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
i2c_core               51431  5 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
soundcore              14491  2 snd,snd_hda_codec
pata_atiixp            13279  0 
r8169                  80744  0 
mii                    13527  3 r8152,r8169,usbnet
shpchp                 37047  0 
tpm_infineon           17131  0 
tpm_tis                18630  0 
tpm                    31057  3 tpm_tis,trusted,tpm_infineon
acpi_cpufreq           19433  0
Comment 3 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-09-25 00:01:41 UTC
guessing x11. might be fonts or mozilla though.
Comment 4 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2017-02-25 22:48:10 UTC
I'm guessing it's a driver issue, but maybe mozilla@ knows more.
Comment 5 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2017-03-30 03:49:15 UTC
Is this still a problem?