KDE taskbar partially dark gray (Radeon HD 5770)

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone is seeing this? I have a new 'testing' build of
> Gentoo using the latest and greatest everything - basic info below. My
> card is the Radeon HD 5770. KDE runs but the left third of the taskbar
> along the bottom is dark gray. It's working fine, it's just the wrong
> color for the first third of the bar.
>

Can you get a screenshot?  The driver is not currently accelerated, so
this sounds like a software issue in the xserver.

Alex

> My resolution is 1920x1080 so I'm guessing there are maybe 800 pixels
> or so that are the wrong color.
>
> This does not happen using my previous build based on
> xorg-server-1.7.6 and kde-4.3.5. I've got this parallel build of
> Gentoo (both stable and ~amd64) so that I can a/b this sort of stuff
> more accurately. Same machine, same card.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this?
>
> If more info is required let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> Stable build - no problem:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.1
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.34_rc4
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.6
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7
> mark at c2stable ~ $
>
> Testing build - has problems
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.1
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.34_rc4
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.8
> cruncher ~ #
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