On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, patrick keshishian <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
Try without 'Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in xorg.conf. -- Matthieu Herrb
