Bug 56657

Summary:	cairo produces black background in the Activities overview in gnome-shell with AMD catalyst driver
Product:	cairo	Reporter:	Stephane <sduchesne>
Component:	xlib backend	Assignee:	Chris Wilson <chris>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	andyrtr
Version:	1.12.6
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Stephane 2012-11-02 04:14:53 UTC

cairo produces a black background (overriding the gnome wallpaper) in the Activities overview in gnome-shell  using the proprietary AMD Catalyst fglrx driver.

System information:
Arch Linux, kernel 3.6.4-1
X.Org X Server 1.13.0 
cairo 1.12.6-2
gnome-shell 3.6.1
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6450 running catalyst-utils 12.9-0.1


Workarounds:
- Rolling back to cairo 1.12.2-3 fixes the problem using the AMD Catalyst driver.
- Bug can not be reproduced using cairo 1.12.6-2 with the open-source ati driver (1:6.14.6-2).

Comment 1 matej.tyc 2012-12-17 12:55:36 UTC

I experience exactly the same behavior, but with open-source Intel drivers.
I haven't tried to downgrade cairo, though.

I have to add that this occurs only when I tell the file manager to "handle the desktop" using gnome-tweak-tool.

cairo 1.12.8
gnome-shell 3.6.2

Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2013-01-08 16:12:43 UTC

Oh if was nautilus:

commit 724c6dfa9521e887682029add879c2fcdd518b14
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Fri Nov 2 16:54:46 2012 +0000

    xlib/shm: Need IncludeInferiors when creating the source fallback
    
    Reported-by: Benjamin Otte <otte@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

Comment 3 Jammy Zhou 2013-03-06 09:11:50 UTC

The problem is still there on my system with cairo 1.12.14-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 13.04, and the fix mentioned by Chris is already included.

Comment 4 Chris Wilson 2013-03-06 09:26:20 UTC

In which case, your attention should turn towards Catalyst.

Comment 5 Jammy Zhou 2013-03-06 09:30:41 UTC

To make clear, the above commit is the trigger or fix?

Comment 6 Chris Wilson 2013-03-06 09:34:26 UTC

It was a fix for a very similar issue with -intel.

Comment 7 Jammy Zhou 2013-03-06 10:01:20 UTC

Thanks for the confirmation. So it should be a different problem for Catalyst.

Comment 8 xuyehua 2013-03-07 07:47:44 UTC

The issue also can be reproduced on Radeon driver (open-source ati driver 1:7.1.0 ) on my environment.
other system information:
gnome-shell 3.6.3.1
cairo    1.12.14
Xserver  1.13.2

Comment 9 n.redini 2013-04-07 15:52:48 UTC

Hello, excuse me for the trivial question but I'm a new arrival, how can I use this fix?
(In reply to comment #2)
> Oh if was nautilus:
> 
> commit 724c6dfa9521e887682029add879c2fcdd518b14
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Date:   Fri Nov 2 16:54:46 2012 +0000
> 
>     xlib/shm: Need IncludeInferiors when creating the source fallback
>     
>     Reported-by: Benjamin Otte <otte@redhat.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

Comment 10 Le Gluon du Net 2013-09-10 07:07:27 UTC

Problem still present in Ubuntu 13.04 with last catalyst driver.

Comment 11 Le Gluon du Net 2013-11-24 17:53:55 UTC

For me bug is sgone on Ubuntu 13.10 with catalyst 13.11.

Comment 12 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-25 13:39:26 UTC

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