Bug 85489 – Remote Desktop shows garbled screen

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description David 'Bombe' Roden 2005-03-16 04:11:56 UTC]

When using the GNOME Remote Desktop feature the screen is not repainted properly (see URL above). Also when switching desktops the new windows are new drawn, except for areas that change (e.g. on mouse-over). I tried several VNC clients (TightVNC-unstable-1.3-dev6, TightVNC-stable-1.29, RealVNC-4.1.1) (all under Windows 2000). The only possibiliy to get a real fresh screen is to close all VNC clients and open a new one. When logging in with additional clients those also only get the garbled screen.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Activate GNOME Remote Desktop.
2. Use VNC Viewer to access desktop.
3.

Actual Results:  
Screen is drawn properly on first login, after that the screen gets more and
more garbled.

Expected Results:  
Show me the real screen without any errors.

--- emerge info ---
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Mar 10 2005, 21:00:07)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r6
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse
-fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse
-fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/
http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://172.16.0.1/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 4nptl X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt
cups curl divx4linux dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode fam fame ffmpeg flac
font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 i8x0
ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs java javamail jikes jms jmx jpeg
junit libg++ libwww lzo mad md5sum mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg
ncurses network nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime
readline samba sdl speex spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd theora tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts vidix xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yv12 zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
--- end of emerge info ---

--- /etc/X11/xorg.conf ---
Section "dri"
        Group 100
        Mode 0660
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"

        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "dbe"

        SubSection "extmod"
                Option "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection

        Load "type1"
        Load "freetype"

        Load "glx"
        Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Keyboard"
        Driver "keyboard"
        Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "USB Mouse"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "Auto"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
        Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
        Option "Buttons"    "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Notebook TFT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "ATI Mobility Radeon 9700"
        Driver "fglrx"
        Option "no_accel" "no"
        Option "no_dri" "no"
        Option "mtrr" "off"
        Option "NoTV" "no"
        Option "TVStandard" "PAL-M"
        Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Normal Screen"
        Device "ATI Mobility Radeon 9700"
        Monitor "Notebook TFT"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1280x800"
                ViewPort 0 0
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Main Layout"
        Screen "Normal Screen"
        InputDevice "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
--- end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ---

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2005-04-04 15:21:02 UTC]

works fine here, but I can't test with windows clients.

Tried lowering your CFLAGS ?

[Comment 2 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-07-04 18:05:43 UTC]

need reporter to try what was said in comment #1 and report back, no response
from reporter.