Bug 42550

Summary:	Screen acting weird after switching to/from console.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aanund Austrheim <aanund>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	gnome
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	screenshot

Description Aanund Austrheim 2004-02-22 23:17:16 UTC

I switch to console, and when i switch back, my X looks totally weird, some sort of color bleeding and wrongness with lines, and icons have white pixels in them.

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2. 6.3)
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System uname: 2.6.3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-mat h"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-m ath"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ http:/ /ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.ne t/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X alsa apm artswrappersuid avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd faad flac  foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg libg++ lib www mad mikmod mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib  perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd thre ads truetype x86 xml xml2 xv zlib"

Comment 1 Aanund Austrheim 2004-02-22 23:17:55 UTC

Created attachment 26141 [details]
screenshot

this is a screenshot showing the problem

Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-23 00:29:38 UTC

i can't see anything wrong with your screenshot. but i think this is not a gnome problem.

Comment 3 Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro 2004-08-15 17:16:38 UTC

The problem is on your card, that issue occurs whent you change from a plain vga16 screen to another screen of about 32/24 depth bits, common in desktop systems.

You should try to adjust better sync ranges in your XF86Config file and also use a proper configuration of the Frame Buffer facilities of your kernel, you should find more information about this on [kernel_source]/Documentation/video/fb.txt .

Happy hacking.

Comment 4 Stian Skjelstad 2005-03-11 03:06:58 UTC

Sounds like a broken vga-adapter and/or driver.

What kind of graphic adapter? Is this still a problem, or do you still have problems with current versions of Xorg?

Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-07 09:23:58 UTC

Still a problem with 6.8.99.15 or modular X?