On an up to date -development system the preferences window of Deer Park
alpha 2 is unusable. While some of the text can just barely be read, most
of it is unreadable. Only the 6 tabs along the top of the window can be
read, but even they are broken up and hard to read.
Most of the Edit->Preferences window is see-through (ie. as you move the
window around you actually see the contents of the desktop, or window
below it). If a screen shot would help, i'd be happy to post one.
Nobody else seems to mention this problem in Bugzilla or in the archives
so i'm wondering if this isn't actually a problem with the
X.org<http://X.org>server?
Bugzilla 155213 does mention a problem with i865 video, but i'm not sure
it's related.
Perhaps the Deer Park preferences window is supposed to be translucent and
that feature is just not working on X.org <
http://X.org> for i865 based
video? Dmesg
does seem to show the kernel complaining a bit, at least about the
framebuffer:
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G
chipsets
intelfb: Version 0.9.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 865G, aperture size 128MB, stolen memory
16252kB
intelfb: Mode is interlaced.
intelfb: Initial video mode is 1024x768-32@70.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
intelfb: ring buffer : space: 63368 wanted 65472
intelfb: lockup - turning off hardware acceleration
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0:
mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary
Looking for someone to give me a nudge in the right direction as to how to
tackle this problem.
Thanks,
Sean
Try renaming your .mozilla directory, restart firefox, and see if it helps.
[I sort of remember some issue with something there.]
tom
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Tom London