Display Issues When Trying To View Pictures, Java, Flash Videos - Fedora 11

wolfetone · #1 19th July 2009, 12:25 AM

Hey guys,

I upgraded to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10 on my IBM ThinkPad R50e. The display worked fine on Fedora 10, but since F11 it doesn't work very well. When I go to open a .JPG and a .PNG, the section of the screen that the photo is displayed on gets distorted. (the attached screenshot doesn't truly represent what is displayed on the screen by the way). Then when I go to a chatroom I use the display distorts again, and when I go on to YouTube or BBC iPlayer to watch a video or two the video distorts as well.

This is a weird problem, I've never experienced an issue like this before. As I said I have attached a screen shot to show you what I'm seeing, but it doesn't truly represent it. Has anyone came across this?

Cheers!

SlowJet · #2 19th July 2009, 12:29 AM

have you updated F11?
Several hundred updates await.

su -
<rootpassword>
yum clean all
yum update

SJ

wolfetone · #3 19th July 2009, 12:45 AM

Nope I haven't. I will run the update now

~cyrus~ · #4 19th July 2009, 12:48 AM

Enable 'Desktop Effects'.

Checkout this thread. I have an IBM R51....and that worked for me.

wolfetone · #5 19th July 2009, 01:32 AM

I tried the update and it didn't do anything, although it's nice to know I'm bleeding edge again

~cyrus~ mate it worked! I'm astounded lol. I tried switching it on when it had Fedora 10, and the screen just went white. So I was expecting it not to work. But not only does it work, it works well!!!! Works quite fast which has amazed me.

Only question I have now, why does the display screw up when Desktop Effects isn't enabled?

~cyrus~ · #6 19th July 2009, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolfetone

Only question I have now, why does the display screw up when Desktop Effects isn't enabled?

Good question .... !!

auralish · #7 23rd July 2009, 05:39 PM

Hi

Sorry if it seems that I am hijacking your thread but I think it's relevant. I had this problem and Enabling Desktop Effects sure fixed it for Flash and Java, but when I take screen shots via Print Screen, the resulting image saved to file is still garbled (with or without Desktop Effects).

Is yours fine even with taking screenshots? Or should I have just started another thread?

~cyrus~ · #8 23rd July 2009, 10:05 PM

Yes .. can confirm that taking a screenshot gives me a garbled image as well.

messinwu · #9 23rd July 2009, 10:30 PM

I have this same problem with an Asus M5N laptop. Enabling Desktop Effects did solve the issue. However, after doing so, when I log out and back in, X will not start.

I may not be the only one with this problem. Therefore, I think more needs to be done to find out why the screen gets garbled when Desktop Effects is not enabled, since enabling Desktop Effects renders the PC useless until Desktop Effects is disabled once again.

I, too, didn't have this problem with F10 but now have it with F11. This is the only machine of mine I've upgraded to F11. I'm holding off upgrading my other PC's until I know this issue is gone.

Snarfster · #10 24th July 2009, 09:28 AM

I had this problem myself and eventually figured out it was a tiling problem.

Solved it by doing this:

If you don't have an xorg.conf in /etc/X11 yet;

As root, type:

Code:

Xorg -configure :1

In the section "Device" add the following line:

Code:

	Option      "Tiling"			"False"

Copy the resulting xorg.conf which is /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Restart X

Hope it works for you.

auralish · #11 24th July 2009, 12:22 PM

Snarfster: Hi, thanks! It sure works now!

Also, I really should have paid attention to that kerneloops message about the intel tiling crash. :/ I think there's also a bug report already about it.

Thanks for your solution!

messinwu · #12 28th July 2009, 11:08 PM

Thank you!! My issue has been solved now also. It was the tiling issue because my laptop also uses an Intel video chipset.