[gentoo-user] Flash and Xorg 7.1?

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

I am not quite sure what went wrong. 

The result: http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/20061600026.png
whenever I try to access a website with flash content on it, the
weird bands of messed-up stuff appear across the screen. It does go
away after I close the offending tab, and performs some action that
forces X to redraw. 

This started happening after I did a largish update after being away
for 2.5 weeks. I think the problem is either with X, firefox, or
flash, though it might go as far as the video driver. Any ideas?
(Or, can anyone reproduce the behaviour?)

I have:

[Fri Jun 09 12:32 AM] wwong@e-nibbles 33s [ AC | FULL }  !" 86
~ $ equery list xorg-x11
[ Searching for package 'xorg-x11' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1 (0)
[Fri Jun 09 12:32 AM] wwong@e-nibbles 44s [ AC | FULL }  !" 86
~ $ equery list mozilla-firefox
[ Searching for package 'mozilla-firefox' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [ -] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 (0)
[Fri Jun 09 12:32 AM] wwong@e-nibbles 51s [ AC | FULL }  !" 86
~ $ equery list netscape-flash 
[ Searching for package 'netscape-flash' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.63 (0)

>From lspci, my video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon Mobility 9200] (rev 02)

I build xorg-server with

[Fri Jun 09 12:33 AM] wwong@e-nibbles 127s [ AC | FULL }  !" 86
~ $ emerge --pretend --verbose xorg-server

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0  USE="dri nptl sdl xorg -3dfx -debug -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -xprint" INPUT_DEVICES="joystick keyboard mouse -acecad -aiptek -calcomp -citron -digitaledge -dmc -dynapro -elo2300 -elographics -evdev -fpit -hyperpen -jamstudio -magellan -magictouch -microtouch -mutouch -palmax -penmount -spaceorb -summa -synaptics -tek4957 -ur98 -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon vesa -apm -ark -chips -cirrus -cyrix -dummy -epson -fglrx -glint -i128 -i740 -i810 -imstt -mach64 -mga -neomagic -nsc -nv -nvidia -r128 -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vga -via -vmware -voodoo" 0 kB 

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

And so I use the built-in radeon drivers. 

Thanks, 

  Willie
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