93522 - Corrupted location field under modern theme on XFree86 4.x and ATI card

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Description

[pedrum]

The location field looks funky/corrupted though it still works fine, visually it
looks broken up. This seems to only happen under the Modern theme. It also seems
to affect graphics elements in the web page (a repeated broken up pattern). I
have taken screenshots under both classic and modern, where can I send these?

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: You can attach it to the bug using the "create attach link"
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/createattachment.cgi?id=93522.

Have you tried a new profile (run "mozilla -profilemanager") ?

Comment 2

[pedrum]

Attachment: Everything is fine with Classic theme

Comment 3

[pedrum]

Attachment: Location bar and image in web page corrupted.

Comment 4

[pedrum]

  I tried the profilemanager option, there was no effect.

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

There were quite a few problems with the modern theme, but I think they are
fixed.  Reporter: can you verify this on a nightly build? 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

Comment 6

[pedrum]

I installed the mozilla-2001080814-0_rh7.i386.rpm (the title bar gives a
different build id 2001080811) and the same problem occurs.

Comment 7

[André Dahlqvist]

I know I've seen this bug before with a bunch of screenshots. It was said that
this happens with large fonts. I can't find the bug right now.

Comment 8

[André Dahlqvist]

I was thinking about bug 80292 which affected the Personal Toolbar (it was just
fixed). The black marks are exactly the same though, so I'm guessing this bug
might have been fixed by this checkin too.

Comment 9

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Is this an issue still on newer nightlies?

Comment 10

[pedrum]

Yes it's still there, tried it with 8/28 nightly. I even moved my .mozilla
profile to see whether that was corrupting anything, it wasn't. BTW, when I
moved my old .mozilla back over the newly created one, my previous settings
weren't restored. Where is mozilla pulling the profile from?

Comment 11

[Christian Reis]

If you did the prefs move while running mozilla, tough luck.

I can't see this on my 2001083108 build, but I believe it could be happening.If
you rm -rf ~/.mozilla and _not_ migrate your prefs, same problem?

How do we reproduce the problem?

Comment 12

[Christian Reis]

If you did the prefs move while running mozilla, tough luck.

I can't see this on my 2001083108 build, but I believe it could be happening.If
you rm -rf ~/.mozilla and _not_ migrate your prefs, same problem?

How do we reproduce the problem?

Comment 13

[Shane Sturrock]

I am seeing this bug with 0.9.4 on RH7.1 but only with XFree86 version 4 or
above.  I am currently running 4.1 and still seeing it but if I use 3.3.6 it
goes away.

Comment 14

[Samuel Sieb]

What video card do you have?
I'm running RH7.1 with Xfree86 4 and have never seen this.

Comment 15

[Shane Sturrock]

I have seen it with ATI Rage LT and ATI Rage Mobility so it is probably the ATI
driver from XFree 4.  Certainly the XF86_MACH64 driver from 3.3.6 doesn't have
the problem.  I have also noticed the problem using the new foggy theme that is
in the Netscape 6.1 theme park but the classic theme is fine so that is what I
am using now.

Comment 16

[Christian Reis]

Shane: is the problem the exact same one as the screenshot shows? And can you
test with the latest nightly?

pedrum: What video card and X version are you using?

I'm a bit unsure of how to proceed - if it's an XFree bug, perhaps we need to
releasenote it. 

Comment 17

[Shane Sturrock]

It probably is an XFree bug in the ATI driver and it still exists in the 4.1.0.1
xserver I am running.  I'll try and get a nightly down and see what that does
too.  The appearance is exactly as seen in the screen shot, corruption of the
lower part of the location field.  If I shade and unshade the window the effect
goes away with the redraw, or it may appear if it wasn't there.

I'll try the nightly once I get it and see how I get on.

Comment 18

[Shane Sturrock]

Just got the nightly (2001092606) and the problem is still there.

Comment 19

[pedrum]

Christian:

I am running 

XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
Release Date: 2 June 2001

I have a ATI Rage XL chipset...

(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI),
        ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP),
        ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
        ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
        ATI Radeon VE (AGP)
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "ATI Rage XL".
(II) ATI:  Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 detected.
(II) ATI:  Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 assigned to active "Device"
section "ATI Rage XL".

   I am no expert on Mozilla themes, but I still can't understand why one
particular theme should be affected. If it's hardware/driver corruption, then
shouldn't this happen on every theme? Is there anything special about the Modern
theme?

Comment 20

[Christian Reis]

Okay, since we can see clearly it's an XFree86 bug, could one of you
please file a bug against XFree and stick a bug# here (they have a
bugtracker at http://www.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugform.cgi) so we can have
record of it.

This is truly quite wierd; the Modern theme probably just uses some
function that triggers corruption in the driver. Hewitt, any idea of
what it might be?

Comment 21

[Shane Sturrock]

I have submitted a report of the problem to the xfree86 bugtracker and included
the URL to get back to this report.

Comment 22

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Are we sure this isn't bug 80292?  It was reopened...

Comment 23

[Christian Reis]

Christopher, I don't kow. A) this problem only seems to happen with
people using ATI cards (good work on figuring that out guys) B) The
screenshot showing the problem is similar, but a tiny bit different.

Since I can read Jason's comment on bug 80292 that says he thought it
was a problem with ATI Rage XL, it could be a dupe. But then Erik says
his is an S3. I don't know, really. If you want you can be my guest and
dupe it, as long as your dupe text contains a reference to the
ATI-specificity of this bug here. :)

Comment 24

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

This is an imagelib issue, not themes.

Comment 25

[Shane Sturrock]

There is a problem with the Xfree 4 ati server.  Disable the linear video memory
aperture with option "nolinear" in the "Device" section and the problem goes away.

Comment 26

[Theblueman]

*** Bug 115427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

[Michael McDougall]

Attachment: Corrupted location field in Win98 - Mozilla0.9.7

Comment 28

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Classic theme has a problem in the background of scrollbar.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=721

Comment 29

[Andrew Schultz]

resolving INVALID -- XFree86 driver bug, not Mozilla