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combuster

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KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Does anyone suffer from graphics corruption when using oxygen with intel drivers ? Here is the screenshot:

This is only a problem when using oxygen window decorations, with dekorator there are no problems of this sort.

I can't be sure if this is oxygens fault or intel drivers...

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

anrxc

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Probably a recent intel driver update... awesome window manager has pretty much the same corruption with icons that are scaled to fit.

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You need to install an RTFM interface.

combuster

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Thanx anxrc, I'll try with the latest xorg git snapshot, if that doesn't work I'll ask on intel-gfx mailing list. Funny thing is that didn't happen before on KDE 4.5 - but oxygen recieved many bug-fixes and enhancements in the meantime, could be that some new mambo-jumbo effect hit the bug with intel drivers. I've tried stripping oxygen to barebone options but that didn't help either (neither did raster) and turning off compositing or changing compositing type from OpenGL to Xrender.

gorudonu

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

everything works for me.... do you have kwin enabled ?

combuster

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

everything works for me.... do you have kwin enabled ?

Yes, I've tried with kwin compositing enabled/disabled but the results are the same. What is your display adapter ?

combuster

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Ok, I found a workaround for this, switching background style from Radial Gradient to Solid Color works. Now I just need to find why Radial Gradient results in artifacts

voidux

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Have you tried older/newer Intel drivers?

combuster

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

I've already tried xf86-video-intel from git - no changes. I can't try older ones because SandyBridge is supported only with 2.14 ...

sandroandrade

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Hi all,

I'm facing the same situation for window buttons but also for kwin menus:

KDE 4.6.1
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.9.3-15.18.4.x86_64
Mesa-7.10-3.3.x86_64
libdrm-2.4.23-9.1.x86_64
xf86-video-intel 2.14.0

Graphics card: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller

Any hint ?

Thanks,

giddie

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Registered: 2009-03-25

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Re: KDE 4.6 Oxygen corruption with i965 driver

Try creating a ~/.drirc file with the following contents:

<driconf>
    <device screen="0" driver="i965">
        <application name="Default">
            <option name="force_s3tc_enable" value="true" />
        </application>
    </device>
</driconf>

Alternatively, install driconf and choose to enable S3TC.  (This will simply write the file shown above.)

I found that this fixed most of the corruption for me, but there's still some occasional glitches.  I'm running kernel26-mainline 3.0rc1-1, xf86-video-intel-git, and mesa et al from [testing].