some applications (QT based??) cause display corruption in gnome
Bug #404076 reported by
Seth
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Sometimes (but not every time) I get display corruption when running either virtualbox or calibre.
my display will get very dim and the color resolution seems to drop to 16 colors. my display is unusable.
if I close the program or bring another window to the foreground the display goes back to normal.
Someone else suggested it may be related to using QT libraries in gnome.
Ubuntu 9.10 karmic
gnome 2.27.4
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Thinkpad T43 with ATI x300 graphics card (ubuntu regular drivers)
I am experiencing the same issue. It seems to happen with QT apps, like you said. I experienced it while running the QT (default) frontend to VirtualBox as well as wile running UNetbootin. The colors on the whole screen seem to become inverted -- the white parts turn black, the black parts turn white, etc. Like you said, it returns to normal when focus is removed from the affected application.
I am also using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) under the Gnome environment.