Bug 29734

Summary: [KMS] Firefox input textbox aren't updated during input and scrolling has similar refresh problem
Product: xorg Reporter: Marco Albanese <delian2>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: delian2
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Marco Albanese 2010-08-22 12:41:45 UTC
Created attachment 38069 [details]
My xorg configuration (based upon the one on thinkwiki.org)

I'm experiencing a problem with my gentoo box.
I'm on an IBM t40 with a radeon mobile 7500 ( R100 chip ) and kernel linux 2.6.34 ( I've 
switched from 2.6.32.. same result ) with KMS enabled ( with KMS disabled the problem 
disappear but I've others little problems with others software ( compiz, lightspark ) ) ,compiz 0.8.6 and mesa 7.8.2.
If I minimize/maximize the window or switch to another window the screen is updated correctly.
Someone from the software above suggest me it could be a driver bug.
I've found similar bug for scrolling problem but not for the input textbox.
Comment 1 Marco Albanese 2010-12-10 10:51:57 UTC
Situation improved with latest driver (6.13.2).
Input textboxes are updated correctly now.
But I can't see the elements in a combox yet.
Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2010-12-14 01:47:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Situation improved with latest driver (6.13.2).
> Input textboxes are updated correctly now.
> But I can't see the elements in a combox yet.

What's a 'combox'? I only know that term from a different context. :) Is that a new problem or was it already there when you made the original report? Can you capture this problem in a screenshot?

Do the problems also occur with other compositing and/or non-compositing window managers?

Please attach the full Xorg.0.log file as well.
Comment 3 Marco Albanese 2010-12-14 02:18:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> What's a 'combox'? I only know that term from a different context. :) Is that a
> new problem or was it already there when you made the original report? Can you
> capture this problem in a screenshot?

Lol, sorry: it's a typo. I mean combobox. A screenshot seem unuseful to me: when I click on a combobox the drop-down menu doesn't appear.
IIRC it's not a new problem but, with the previous driver, the visualization (with firefox) was so messy that was difficult to isolate the single problems.

> Do the problems also occur with other compositing and/or non-compositing window
> managers?

After switching to a non-composing window manager (from compiz to metacity) the problem doesn't occur.

> Please attach the full Xorg.0.log file as well.
Attached :)
Comment 4 Marco Albanese 2010-12-14 02:23:00 UTC
Created attachment 41101 [details]
My xorg log
Comment 5 Michel Dänzer 2010-12-14 09:29:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> A screenshot seem unuseful to me:
> when I click on a combobox the drop-down menu doesn't appear.

As in no part of it is visible, and nothing else in its place either? If so, that sounds like something up to compiz / firefox rather than the X driver.

> IIRC it's not a new problem but, with the previous driver, the visualization
> (with firefox) was so messy that was difficult to isolate the single problems.

Still, it seems like this is a different problem from the input textbox one (which seems fixed) and should probably be tracked separately.
Comment 6 Marco Albanese 2010-12-14 09:43:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> As in no part of it is visible, and nothing else in its place either? If so,
> that sounds like something up to compiz / firefox rather than the X driver.

I'll fill a bug to compiz and firefox :)

> Still, it seems like this is a different problem from the input textbox one
> (which seems fixed) and should probably be tracked separately.

You are right. This bug is fixed for me :)

Thank you for the answer
Comment 7 Michel Dänzer 2010-12-14 10:16:32 UTC
Thank you for the update.

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