[Xorg-driver-geode] Dark Active Buttons on Geode 2.11.1 on Jetway J8F9

[Mart Raudsepp]

Hello,

Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2009-05-25 kell 10:04, kirjutas Alexander Bigga -
Software:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using a Nano-ITX Board from Jetway (J8F9-800) with an AMD Geode LX on
> it. For half a year, it worked with Xubuntu 8.04 and the fbdev driver.
> 
> Now I upgraded to Xubuntu 9.04 and wanted to use the geode xorg driver.
> Xubuntu comes with xorg 1.6 and xorg-geode-2.11.1. My monitor is connected
> via VGA and has a resolution of 1440x900.
> 
> I was playing around the whole day with modelines, driver options and
> whatever to achieve the right resolution. The solution is quite simple and
> is only one option in the default xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>         Option          "NoPanel"               "true"
> EndSection

I'm not sure why you'd need that. But I haven't tested 2.11.x myself
extensively due to another issue which I need to finally get logged on
bugzilla. I believe there are 2.11.2 tarballs out in the FTP by the way,
not sure why there has been no announcement or anything.

> But there is one annoying effect: the active button on dialog boxes and the
> active tab in some programs have a dark, almost black background. And of
> course, it's quite difficult to read black text on almost black background
> :-(
> 
> This doesn't happen with fbdev!
> 
> Any idea, what goes wrong? Any secret option?

I suspect you are hitting bug 15700. A workaround, until a fix is found
by someone, could be to use a different theme that doesn't exercise the
specific case relating to gradients that triggers the issue.

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15700


Regards,
Mart Raudsepp