Bug 73034

Summary:	firefox's autoscroll feature shows a trail when using nvidia binary drivers with composite enabled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	citral
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	mozilla
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description citral 2004-12-01 07:40:33 UTC

See the URL: when using the autoscroll feature in firefox using the middle mouse button, it shows a trail. This problem occurs with X.org with composite ON. Else it just behaves like in Xfree86 where I never experienced this problem either.
Mousewheel up/down do not have these problems, and if you scroll the page a bit, the trail goes away.

I tried running without my profile directory, but it made no difference.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get X.org and enable composite extension
2. Get firefox and enable autoscroll
3. View random page and hold down your middle mouse button to scroll

Actual Results:  
The autscroll feature works as it should, but leaves a trail as seen in the pic
in the URL.

Expected Results:  
Not leave a trail...

1637$2 jaguar $ emerge -p xorg-x11 mozilla-firefox nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx &&
uname -a

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4  
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0  
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3  
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6111  

Linux jaguar 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:58:27 CET 2004 i686 Intel(R)
Celeron(TM) CPU                1200MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
1637$2 jaguar $

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2004-12-01 13:05:47 UTC

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159

Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-01 14:20:00 UTC

Nothing we can do about this, looks like it's already been reported to nvidia. Please follow any further issues on the upstream (freedesktop.org) bug.

Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-20 12:43:42 UTC

This is a binary driver problem.

Comment 4 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-20 12:44:00 UTC

Re-assign...

Comment 5 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-20 12:44:16 UTC

Restore resolution.