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KaibutsuX

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Registered: 2015-04-22

Posts: 38

[SOLVED] Video Corruption in xfce

I am seeing weird video corruption issues in xfce aparently even after a complete format/reinstall. It only affects my display after installing xorg and xfce. Terminal is unaffected before starting X.

The problem first appeared about a month ago after a full system update. I noticed it affected almost anything using a gtk widget. It even affects the terminal in xfce (but not the actual tty terminal prior to starting xfce).

See the attached screenshots. Anyone have any ideas? Again this is a completely fresh install, the only things I have installed on top of base and base-devel are: firefox, xfce4-screenshooter, xorg and xfce4.

The desktop (note the wallpaper is unaffected): http://i.imgur.com/uzyh464.png

The terminal in xfce (I did `whoami` and then `echo "This is a test"`): http://i.imgur.com/bZDYLf9.png

The start page of firefox: http://i.imgur.com/qktaJJh.png

[kaibutsux@rigel ~]$ lspci | grep -i "vga"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)

[kaibutsux@rigel ~]$ pacman -Qs intel
local/mesa 10.6.2-1
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification
local/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+381+g5772556-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Last edited by KaibutsuX (2015-07-23 17:06:48)

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: [SOLVED] Video Corruption in xfce

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … SNA_issues

KaibutsuX

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Registered: 2015-04-22

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Video Corruption in xfce

Holy crap are you serious? UXA fixed it!

Thank you so much! Do you know how many times I have re-formatted!

Did arch recently change the default acceleration from UXA to SNA? I don't get why it broke after my most recent system upgrade. I can't seem to find any news items relating to video configurations.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] Video Corruption in xfce

The intel drivers changed the default a while ago. The current package has some bugs, that's what you're running into.

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: [SOLVED] Video Corruption in xfce

There is this bug report for the issue. Looks like a change in the intel driver recently.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Video Corruption in xfce

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309