[gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[James]

Hello,

Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows
sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from 
them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this
sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears
all sporadically get into the act.  Even just the "subject
window of this message is affected. Today, the color is solid gray.
The maligned behavior  always returns upon exiting  kde or even rebooting the
system.


Also the scroll bar seems extraordinarily slow and often
buffers up my keystrokes to the point of aimlessly wandering
back and forth ignoring any new input, until it's 
wandering dance is exhausted.....


recompiling loads of stuff, as we speed to see if
it fixes the problem. Anyone got any hints on this?
bugs.gentoo.org did not reveal any pearls of wisdom
that I could find....


ideas?
James

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[Adam Carter]

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> Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows
> sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from
> them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this
> sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears
> all sporadically get into the act.  Even just the "subject
> window of this message is affected. Today, the color is solid gray.
> The maligned behavior  always returns upon exiting  kde or even rebooting
> the
> system.
>
>
> Also the scroll bar seems extraordinarily slow and often
> buffers up my keystrokes to the point of aimlessly wandering
> back and forth ignoring any new input, until it's
> wandering dance is exhausted.....
>
>
> recompiling loads of stuff, as we speed to see if
> it fixes the problem. Anyone got any hints on this?
> bugs.gentoo.org did not reveal any pearls of wisdom
> that I could find....
>

Interesting - sounds similar to what i get - see my thread "Some corruption
after gnome 2.30". I rebuilt world and still have the problem. So
perhaps.there is something lower level than gnome/kde that causes this
issue.

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[gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[James]

Adam Carter <adamcarter3 <at> gmail.com> writes:


> 
> Ever since my upgrade to kde-4.4.5 my seamonkey windows
> sporadically go black, when I move the mouse away from
> them. Both the Web browser and the mail client do this
> sporadically. Headers, toolbars and where the text appears
> all sporadically get into the act. 

> Interesting - sounds similar to what i get - see my thread "Some corruption
after gnome 2.30". I rebuilt world and still have the problem. So perhaps.there
is something lower level than gnome/kde that causes this issue.


Yep, maybe you are on to something. I rebuilt seamonkey and
gnome-extra/evolution-data-server and still it croaks.


I rebuild 'system' tonight and see if that helps. I have not
sync'd and updated in 5 days, so I do that too. Let you know 
what I find. Since I run kde, it must be deep below the gnome
or kde level.....?

Here are my seamonkey flags:
alsa chatzilla composer crypt cups dbus java ldap mailclient roaming 
startup-notification  -custom-optimization -gnome -system-sqlite

James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[pk]

On 2010-08-10 16:13, James wrote:
> Adam Carter <adamcarter3 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Interesting - sounds similar to what i get - see my thread "Some corruption
> after gnome 2.30". I rebuilt world and still have the problem. So perhaps.there
> is something lower level than gnome/kde that causes this issue.

What X graphic card driver are you using? I ran into a similar issue
with ati-drivers (>=10.6) where AMD has introduced a new 2D acceleration
infrastructure (inherited from Windows); this doesn't work so good (at
least not for me and others) so I disabled it with 'aticonfig
--set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE' (as root of course, since this changes
a ati config file in /etc).

Best regards

Peter K

[gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[James]

pk <peterk2 <at> coolmail.se> writes:

 'aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE' 

You are GENIUS,
well as far as I can tell.


works for me, so far....

thx,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[pk]

On 2010-08-10 22:06, James wrote:

> You are GENIUS,

If you say so... ;-)

...but other people have walked this path before me so I'm only passing
on the knowledge... glad I could help.

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.4.5 & Seamonkey weirdness

[Adam Carter]

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:06 AM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> pk <peterk2 <at> coolmail.se> writes:
>
>  'aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE'
>
>
Works for me to (after a restart). Thanks.

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