Bug#631084: parts of the firefox/iceweasel 4.0 window are completly black

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:00:00PM -0300, Gastón Araguás wrote:
> 2011/6/20 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:29:28PM -0300, Gastón Araguás wrote:
> >> 2011/6/20 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> >> > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:40:13PM -0300, Gastón Araguás wrote:
> >> >> Package: iceweasel
> >> >> Version: 4.0.1-3
> >> >> Severity: normal
> >> >>
> >> >> in iceweasel 4.0.1-2 and 4.0.1-3, parts of window are completly black. (and
> >> >> when doing the bug report happend too with the reportbug window). Bugs reported
> >> >> with the same issue are related to ati or nvidia drivers, but i'm using intel.
> >> >> The effect disappears when downgrade to 3.5.
> >> >> Try to attach a screenshot to the report i found out that the black boxes
> >> >> disappears on the screenshot.
> >> >
> >> > Try to take a picture with a digital camera.
> >> they don't look so nice, but you can see the problem, i think. tell me
> >> if you need anything more. thank you
> >
> > That suggests a problem with either your video driver or cairo. Can you
> > try an upstream firefox tarball and see if that happens with these?
> you are right, with an upstream firefox doesn't happens. I don't know
> how to report this error, because they only occurs with iceweasel.
> What do you suggest?

I'll try to package a version of cairo that includes mozilla patches, so
that you can see whether that version fixes your problem.

Cheers,

Mike