Enabling extension Composite makes firefox crash when accesing certain sites such as: www.cnn.com www.theregister.co.uk www.shockwave.com If I disable Composite from /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart the xserver firefox works fine and those pages can be accessed normally. To reproduce just enable Composite in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Running firefox from a terminal produces the following output: -------- begin of output ----------- The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 85 error_code 8 request_code 144 minor_code 3) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) -------- end of ouput ----------- The machine is a Pentium M laptop with an Intel 855GM card. I'm running gentoo with kernel 2.6.8.1 (development-sources-2.6.8.1). I also tryed kernel 2.6.7 (gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r13) and the problem persists. Both kernels are using i915 driver for DRM. Obtained from patch: (http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied/patches/dri/i915_linux.diff)
I forgot to mention, I'm using firefox-0.9.3
try running firefox like so: export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 ; firefox if this fixes it, then this is NOTABUG, the flash plugin is buggy.
That fixes it, thanks a lot.
closing.
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