654325 - Certain Graphics Corruption in Linux with AMD 11.4 Drivers

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Danny Stieben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.57 Safari/534.24
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

When I start Firefox, certain graphics are corrupted. For example, my Personas theme is completely green when it's supposed to be blue, and reinstalling the theme won't help either. I have a similar problem in Thunderbird as well (making a bug for that too).

Aside from the interface itself, only the Firefox logos on firefox.com are corrupted as well for some reason.

You can find a screenshot at http://dmaxel.homelinux.com/images/firefox.png

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installed AMD drivers
2. Started Firefox
3. Corruption appears

Actual Results:  
Bad graphics corruption.

Expected Results:  
Should appear as normal.

Firefox version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
OS: Fedora 14
Kernel: 2.6.38.4
Using AMD Catalyst 11.4 Proprietary Drivers
Xorg 1.9.5

Comment 1

[Danny Stieben]

*This is not a graphics driver problem because no other programs have problems with it. Only Firefox and Thunderbird have these problems.

Comment 2

[Thomas Ahlblom]

What's your graphics chipset?
$ lspci | grep VGA

Does everything you have problem with always turn into green color?

Wild speculations:
The PNG logos on firefox.com have alpha channels, and I assume the Personas also have alpha channels. So maybe the bug has something to do with that.

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[Danny Stieben]

lspci: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]

Yes, it seems that for the things it doesn't like, things turn into either green or purple. No other colors.

Possibly. I know a few things about graphics, but I didn't know alpha channels could cause that. Though it'd still be a Mozilla-only problem, for alpha channels everywhere else are fine.

Safe Mode still has the same issue.

Comment 4

[Danny Stieben]

For comparison here is the bug report for Thunderbird I made: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654332

Comment 5

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Have you always had this problem this problem, or did it occur suddenly when upgrading Firefox/the AMD driver/the operating system etc?

Comment 6

[Danny Stieben]

I believe it appeared after the latest AMD driver was installed.

Comment 8

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Danny, is this bug still an issue with recent versions of Firefox / AMD drivers?