GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316268
Gnome 2.12 background doesn't draw correctly
Last modified: 2005-09-15 10:09:25 UTC
Distribution: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Package: nautilus Severity: Normal Version: GNOME2.12.0 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Gentoo Synopsis: Gnome 2.12 background doesn't draw correctly Bugzilla-Product: nautilus Bugzilla-Component: Desktop Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Description of Problem: Nautilus can't draw the desktop correctly when I select to have a gradient for the color or when I select a picture for the desktop background. I have the complete install of Gnome 2.12, and I would like to have my desktop working. I thought that it was related to bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306216 but it is not completely the same. I am running Xorg 7 CVS snapshot September 9 2005. I read that the bug had been fixed in X so perhaps it is a bug in Nautilus. Owen Taylor had some patches that he wrote but they don't work. I forced the redraw work around in Cairo, but that didn't completely fix the bug. It partially fixed the desktop issue by forcing the redraw bug. With the work around I was able to correctly have a desktop background tiled, but any other option caused the desktop to repeat itself. I reverted back to without my patch. I checked to see if what Owen Taylor had done for the bug had done anything so I ran a diff on fbpict.c from CVS, and what Gentoo was installing, and the files are exactly the same. I am the ATI drivers from the X.org project. I would like my desktop to look a lot better. I have a link to a screenshot. http://rapsure.net/Screenshot.png There you will see what I am seeing. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@gnome.bugs 2005-09-14 06:33 UTC ------- The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@gnome.bugs. Previous reporter was brian@rapsure.net.
I am the reporter of the bug. I ran the test case from bug 306216 and the test case passed. There were no repeat problems. Nautilus still won't draw the desktop correct with graphics or color gradients. My Graphics card is a ATI Radeon 9000. Hence I am using the radeon driver in X.org X11.
CCing Owen.
I think it is in the radeon driver. When I disable acceleration the desktop draws correctly, but when I enable acceleration the desktop becomes looks the same as in the screenshot. I tried out the vesa driver and the desktop displayed correctly also. So I believe it is the acceleration for the ATI Radeon 9000 card that is causing this problem.
If something changes depending on whether you have acceleration on or off, that's a good sign you should be filing a bug against X, not against nautilus.
I added the bug to X.org's bugzilla. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4456
Thanks, resolving to NOTGNOME.