Black glitches under XOrg

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Predatory Kangaroo · Post by **Predatory Kangaroo** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:33 pm

Well, a few days ago I realized I was happy with my system... so it was time for change.
I decided to give XDirectFB a go, but the ebuild didn't create the output binary in the end. After a while fixing up the source code, it compiled so I installed it with "make install", instead of ebuild merge... big mistake on my part, as it trampled all over my existing xorg installation.

After getting bored of XDirectFB and re-emerging X.Org, I noticed a rather annoying glitch - the icons in OpenOffice.Org had black backgrounds, with only parts of the icon showing up. This glitch is also evident while running Photoshop in Crossover Office, with the program becoming unusable because whenever I drag a box or apply an effect, the affected area turns black. This bug also appears while using VMWare - when the cursor (under windows in vmware 5.0 workstation beta RC 2) is the text selecting cursor, a black square appears around the cursor.

Furthermore, this seems to affect gdesklets as well - when I attempt to place an item onto the desktop, I get the following error, which I believe to be connected:

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[EXC]utils.xdr.XDRError:
[EXC]
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/ItemBrowser.py: line 114 __on_activate_item
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/Observable.py: line 45 update_observer
in ./DisplayBrowser/__init__.py: line 121 __on_activate
in ./gDeskletsClient/__init__.py: line 36 open_display
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 58 open_display
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 42 __send
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 76 recv
[---]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py
[---]   71     chunk = ""
[---]   72     while (True):
[---]   73         try:
[---]   74             length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---]   75         except:
[ERR]>  76             raise XDRError
[---]   77
[---]   78         if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---]   79
[---]   80         flag = s.recv(1)
[---]   81         if (flag == _CONT): continue
[---]   82

I have completely unmerged X.Org and re-emerged it, with no change in this behavior.

The system is an Acer Travelmate 270LCi - a Pentium-M 1.3 Ghz, Intel Integrated 82855GM graphics card.
The system setup is a GCC-3.4, ~X86, xorg-x11-6.8.2, openoffice-bin-1.1.4, crossover-office-bin-4.1, gdesklets-core-0.33.1.

Any input on this would be greatly appreciated.

[EDIT]Image demonstrating the bug in photoshop and openoffice available here[/EDIT]

thebigslide · Post by **thebigslide** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:38 am

does it happen with the gimp?

Predatory Kangaroo · Post by **Predatory Kangaroo** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:36 am

thebigslide wrote:does it happen with the gimp?

Nup, the GIMP doesn't seem to have these graphical glitches in any of it's tools.

thebigslide · Post by **thebigslide** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:19 am

so GTK apps are ok. hmm. Try emerging the libraries used to render wine guis. Not sure off hand which this is. You might have to set a directfb use flag for it ?

Predatory Kangaroo · Post by **Predatory Kangaroo** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:03 pm

thebigslide wrote:so GTK apps are ok. hmm. Try emerging the libraries used to render wine guis. Not sure off hand which this is. You might have to set a directfb use flag for it ?

Great idea - I'll ldd openoffice's binary and wine's x11drv binary and get back.

[EDIT]
Well, the only two libraries that appear in an ldd of x11drv.so and soffice, but don't appear in an ldd of gimp-2.2 are the following:

libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x41044000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4104d000)

Problem is, qpkg -f reports both of these files belong to xorg-x11, and stat shows that they were created a few microseconds before the latest X binary... so they appear to have been rebuilt.
[/EDIT]

Predatory Kangaroo · Post by **Predatory Kangaroo** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:13 am

Well, after re-emerging xorg-x11, GDesklets works once more, but the black glitches are still there (after re-emerging crossover office, vmware, openoffice AND xorg-x11)

I'm doing an emerge -vu world now, out of desperation.

casa · Post by **casa** » Sat May 28, 2005 12:25 pm

Hi,

did you fix your problem with those black icons in openoffice? a couple of days ago my openoffice started to look like yours.

My setup: GCC-3.4, ~X86, xorg-x11-6.8.2, openoffice-bin-1.1.4

Regards,
Carsten

Predatory Kangaroo · Post by **Predatory Kangaroo** » Sun May 29, 2005 11:22 am

Heh - I solved it a few weeks back by reinstalling

But shortly after a gentoo dev suggested that I run a find orphan script (http://dev.gentoo.org/~johnm/files/forphan) and seriously audit the found files.

yamakawa · Post by **yamakawa** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:01 pm

Same is here...
I confirm KDE & Gnome apps are totally OK.
This problem is limited to OpenOffice and StarOffice, which I also installed only.
My env is gcc-3.4.4 xorg-x11-6.8.99.8 openoffice-1.1.4-r1.

=]messiah[= · Post by **=]messiah[=** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:51 pm

did anyone try the script or finf any other solution to the problem??

manny15 · Post by **manny15** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:20 pm

I've got black backgrounds on openoffice icons. Here's what got updated

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[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r2 [4.0.7-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r8 [2.5.1-r7] 
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.3.2 [2.2.3] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 [6.8.2-r1] 
[ebuild     UD] x11-terms/xterm-200-r3 [202] 
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.3-r1 [4.1.3] 
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/libungif-4.1.3-r1 [4.1.3] 
[ebuild     U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9 [1.0.9_rc3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r3 [1.8-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 [2.15.92.0.2-r9] 
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-kernel/ck-sources-2.6.11_p10  
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9 [1.0.9_rc3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r5 [2.1.11-r4] 
[ebuild     U ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a [1.0.8] 
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/jpeg-6b-r5 [6b-r4] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.21 [4.20] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r1 [2.6.11] 
[ebuild     U ] net-im/gaim-1.3.1 [1.3.0] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-plugins/gaim-encryption-2.38 [2.37]
[ebuild     U ] media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r4 [0.22.0-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.545 [0.510] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7009-r1 [0.7009] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4 [1.11.12-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-fs/udev-058 [056] 
[ebuild     U ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha01-r2 [2.01.01_alpha01-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-util/ctags-5.5.4-r2 [5.5.4-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.3.075 [6.3.068] 
[ebuild     U ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20050515 [20050325] 
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-lang/python-2.4.1

soffice libs (non-openoffice specific)

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$ ldd soffice.bin 
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb6ca6000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6a7a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fed000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb622c000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb6fc8000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb6fc0000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb6fac000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb6efd000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb6ef8000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6ee6000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb6ec4000)

Hmm...

kwisatz_haderais · Post by **kwisatz_haderais** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:57 am

manny15 wrote:I've got black backgrounds on openoffice icons.

Me too!

xorg-6.8.2-r2
gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11
openoffice-1.1.4-r1
gcc-3.4.4
xfce-4.2.2

yamakawa · Post by **yamakawa** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:35 pm

kwisatz_haderais wrote:
manny15 wrote:I've got black backgrounds on openoffice icons. Here's what got updated
Me too!

same here. i think we should stick with -r1 for this to be solved.

franky999 · Post by **franky999** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:43 pm

Same problem here. Weird OOo icons.

2.6.11-gentoo-r11
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2
openoffice-bin-1.1.4-r1
gcc-3.4.4

jack_mort · Post by **jack_mort** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:29 pm

You should take a look here

yamakawa · Post by **yamakawa** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:55 pm

jack_mort wrote:You should take a look here

Thank you for your info but....that really does not tell anything other than that they have the same problem with ours....after we have already reported here.

opopanax · Post by **opopanax** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:08 pm

Bump...

noticed the same behavior and the "new" bug on bugzilla is a little old, couple of weeks.

GhePeU · Post by **GhePeU** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:58 pm

no solutions yet?

saber850 · Post by **saber850** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:58 am

I too have the black icons in the OpenOffice toolbars.

openoffice-bin-1.1.4-r1
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2
nvidia-kernel-1.0.7667
nvidia-glx-1.0.7667
kernel 2.6.11.10 (vanilla)

I'm not exactly sure when this problem occurred. It's not a bug in openoffice (directly) as I've used OO-1.1.4 on this system 1-2 months ago and the icons were fine.
One issue I battled w/ recently was getting version 6.8.2-r2 of xorg-x11 to work (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-26 ... ight-.html). The solution for me was to recompile xorg-x11 and nvidia-glx with USE=dlloader.

[Edit]
This problem has been reported to bugs.gentoo.org (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96053).
That bug entry was marked resolved upstream to a freedesktop.org bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3781) which seems to have found an applied a fix as of 15 July.

GhePeU · Post by **GhePeU** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:02 am

no, spyderous just pointed out the commit that broke transparency in xorg CVS

nothing from xorg developers, yet

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:35 pm

Hi,

got the same problem here after I installed some packages.

Any solution? Where would those icons be stored in? Are the icons corrupted or is OOo not displaying them correctly although they are still correct?

AMD64

Thanks,
Spiro

Epyon · Post by **Epyon** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:49 pm

Compile xorg without the 9914_all_6.8.2-mmx-gcc4.patch and the problem should disappear.

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:38 am

Hi,

thank you for the advice.

Sorry for asking you these questions, but I need to be careful, as not so much experienced with Linux jet and know what I do before I compile xorg, because in the past I did something that my xorg did not work anymore with nvidia.

to be sure, i wish to double ckeck. Here is my actual versions:
XORG: x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc +font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk (-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv
GCC: sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1

1. This patch you are talking about is it already included or not in my current version? I have gcc 3.4 and not 4. Is this patch intended for gcc 4.0 or not?
2. Then, how would I compile xorg without 9914_all_6.8.2-mmx-gcc4.patch? I never did this.
3. Lastly, because I have nVidia mobo, once I emerge xorg, do I have to emerge nvidia-kernel or any other driver or not?

Is there a bugzilla case for this issue, that you know?

Thank you for your help,
Spiro

Epyon · Post by **Epyon** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:34 pm

The patch gets applied when you emerge that version. I'm not sure of the best way to not use that patch.

firex · Post by **firex** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:27 am

how exclude the patch
1. start the emerge of xorg-x11
2. stop emerge after the patches are entpacked and before thay are applied with ctrl-z
3. go to /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2/work/patche
4. remove the patch with number 9914
5. lets work emerge continue with command "fg"
6. thats all. this patch will be not applied.

i did test it, and it didn't applied the patch.
i don't know if it helps for the solving the problem.
i'm wating for emerge finish.

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