Bug#595200: Parts of the firefox/iceweasel window are completely black

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:43:09PM +0200, Hartmut Wernisch wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:36:34 +0200
> Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > ... but the original bug reporter claimed to still have
> > > the problem with cairo 1.8.10-5...
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok, I was apparently to fast to judge. I'm sorry, maybe
> > there are multiple issues to work around and the cairo
> > workaround only partially fixes stuff. Still this issue
> > doesn't seem to be affecting anyone not using fglrx... I
> > can't help myself questioning the values of locating
> > workarounds for buggy proprietary drivers and it that's
> > really release critical for *iceweasel*.....
> > 
> > Thanks for your awesome work.
> > 
> 
> Seems that I have found a solution which works for me!
> 
> -) login as root to a console
> -) aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
> -) logout from X and login again  (restart the X server)
> 
> 
> See the original post here:
> http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/hardware/445975-fglrx-10-6-black-boxes.html

If this is confirmed to fix the original reporter's issue, I'll
downgrade this bug severity.

Mike