hmm.. I'm leaning towards this being a problem with X now. I'm seeing very rare, transient artifacts with my WM's menu (pic added to URL below). I also have noticed horizontal "distortion" line through my desktop background images (forcing a redraw of same image clears the "distortion").
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:24 PM, patrick keshishian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > With macppc snapshot install from Aug 3rd I was able to, once again, > run firefox (v 3.6.8). But there are some drawing glitches in the UI. > The Gimp port finally finished building and it too is demonstrating > similar artifacts. They resemble the color shifts one would see when > using apps that install their own colormap, but not quite. > > I'm not certain if this is an X issue or if the problem is at a higher > level in the app or the toolkit (gtk+2). I don't run many X apps, the > few others (wmapm, xv image viewer, xpdf) have much simpler UI > interfaces and don't show issues. > > I placed three screen shots demonstrating the "glitch" over here: > http://sidster.com/scratch/glitch/ > > With firefox and gmail interface as an example, you see the outline of > check-boxes aren't drawn. If I roll-over them with the pointer they > redraw but once the pointer is moved away they disappear. But if I > check one of them (as shown), the outline for that check-box and all > check-boxes below it remain drawn. > > Also included are dmesg[1], X log and conf. > > Any ideas as to the cause? > > I am assuming no one is having issues with -current and associated > ports on other platforms. I'm just not sure how many others use macppc > -current on a daily basis. > > Thanks, > --patrick > > [1] Possibly not relevant, but it's my first time seeing this: > attempting to restore vector in use vecproc 0 veccpu 6b0ff0
