Bug#595200: Parts of the firefox/iceweasel window are completely black

[Hartmut Wernisch]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:36:34 +0200
Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey
> wrote:
> > 
> > ... but the original bug reporter claimed to still have
> > the problem with cairo 1.8.10-5...
> > 
> 
> Ok, I was apparently to fast to judge. I'm sorry, maybe
> there are multiple issues to work around and the cairo
> workaround only partially fixes stuff. Still this issue
> doesn't seem to be affecting anyone not using fglrx... I
> can't help myself questioning the values of locating
> workarounds for buggy proprietary drivers and it that's
> really release critical for *iceweasel*.....
> 
> Thanks for your awesome work.
> 

Seems that I have found a solution which works for me!

-) login as root to a console
-) aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
-) logout from X and login again  (restart the X server)


See the original post here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/hardware/445975-fglrx-10-6-black-boxes.html

cu
-harti