KDE taskbar partially dark gray (Radeon HD 5770)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 14:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 
> OK - created a Flickr account. Hopefully the link will work. There's a
> lot of resolution so you can zoom in much tighter.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328985@N03/
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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.

People have reported similar issues with the xf86-video-vmware driver,
which doesn't use any 2D acceleration either. If this doesn't happen
with 2D acceleration, that points towards the pixman library as the most
likely culprit. Otherwise it could be a problem in KDE itself.


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