Bug#502018: Iceweasel rendering problems still exist in Iceweasel 3.5.11 in Sid

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:59 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 10:41 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:59:17AM +0200, BU66ER BAD6ER wrote:
> > > > The Iceweasel rendering problems still exist in Iceweasel 3.5.11 in
> > > > Sid, but only on my ATI Radeon "fglrx" machine, and not on my nVidia
> > > > GeForce "nvidia" box. Some web pages turn all black, with some text
> > > > parts visible. Moving the mouse cursor shows the text (boxes/fields)
> > > > below the cursor but does not render the entire web page. Selecting
> > > > the entire web page (Ctrl-A) shows all text but no other graphics.
> > > > 
> > > > The bug can be repeated in Icedove and I have been recommended to
> > > > install the 'experimental' version of libcairo2; but I feel it would
> > > > be better to have this bug fixed in the food chain.
> > > > 
> > > > The temporary fix is to use any other browser, as this bug is only
> > > > shown in Iceweasel/Icedove. I run KDE 4.4.5 and have composite turned
> > > > on in my xorg.conf.
> > > 
> > > It turns out the patch that was applied on 1.6.4-7 to fix this bug is
> > > *not* applied anymore. The 1.6.4-7 entry is not present in the
> > > changelog, so I suspect it was fixed in one branch and not in the other.
> > > 
> > > Dave, could you apply the patch again?
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=49;bug=495620
> > > 
> > > Who knows, it could also fix the various problems with the experimental
> > > cairo.
> > 
> > Probably but I don't really like the idea of having yet another release
> > with this workaround for buggy drivers. As long as that workaround is in
> > cairo nobody will ever fix the buggy drivers...
> > 
> > If nothing happens before squeeze release on the drivers front. (...)
> 
> It hasn't happened since way before lenny released, there is no way this
> will happen in the little time remaining before the squeeze release.

Yes, unfortunately... and then it will stay again at the same state
until squeeze+1 is frozen ;)

Oh well, if you can convince the release team that a new cairo upload
with your patch is acceptable I'll do it
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