Firefox 3 cured
Recently I blew away ageing 6-STABLE on my workstation and installed afresh 7-STABLE. While at it, I decided to install Firefox3 instead of good ol’ Firefox2. It worked okay, but behold, on certain pages background images were replaced by random pieces of screen widgetry.
I was desperate.
Finally good folks of the FreeNode’s #freebsd-gnome channel, namely Zyl and miwi, told me the relevant more magic line for xorg.conf:
Option “XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps” “On”
And all is warm and cozy again. Thanks!
August 8th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Just a FYI: I can reproduce this problem with ‘nv’ xorg driver, but I can’t reproduce it with nvidia-driver. There was discuss in freebsd-gnome@ list, btw.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I should have stated that mine was on unrecognized RV515 based card driven by radeonhd driver.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Yeah, thank you very much ! I had the same problem, but I thank it was a problem with a library or my CFLAGS. I made a big switch from 7.0/i386/UP to 7-STABLE/amd64/SMP. I use the “nv” driver because nvidia-driver can’ be used with amd64…
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October 19th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
So, is a bug or not?
In Firefox, Gnome, or X11?