After Applying Latest Updates KDE | Gnome Displays Bad

[James J Catchpole]

Last night I applied the latest Fedora 11 (Rawhide) updates
which included updates to X. Now both my KDE and Gnome
Displays are damaged. One symptom is that the background
color for all panels is BLACK. As this problem occurs for
both KDE and Gnome I am assuming that there is an X
problem.

On 04/27/2009 12:00 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
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> 1. Re: GNOME clock first day of week??? (Rahul Sundaram)
> 2. Re: vmware problem in F11 (Adrin Jalali)
> 3. Re: nautilus-sendto behaviour : bug or not bug ? (Axel)
> 4. Re: Vaio webcam (Riku Sepp?l?)
> 5. Re: GNOME clock first day of week??? (Ron Yorston)
> 6. re: rawhide report: 20090425 changes (Gianluca Cecchi)
> 7. Re: Will add a few fedora upgrade test cases, your feedback
>    would be welcome (Liam)
> 8. Re: F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD? (sean darcy)
> 9. Re: F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD? (Robert P. J. Day)
> Re: F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD? (sean darcy)
> Re: Tap on mousepad not working (Scott Robbins)
> rawhide report: 20090427 changes (Rawhide Report)
> Re: any thoughts on why firefox is still nad-grindingly slow?
> (Adam Jackson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:16:41 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram
> Subject: Re: GNOME clock first day of week???
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> On 04/27/2009 02:27 AM, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just noticed that the GNOME clock applet (clock-applet) has Tuesday
> > as the first day of the week.
> >
> > Is there something bizarrely wrong with my locale, and if so how do I
> > change it?
> >
> > Or is it an upstream bug?
>
> It could be a locale specific bug since I don't see it. Do file a bug
> report in http://bugzilla.redhat.com
>
> Rahul
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:55:02 +0430
> From: Adrin Jalali
> Subject: Re: vmware problem in F11
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> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Lawrence E. Graves<
> [e-mail]>  wrote:
> > I guess that's the kind of answer an inexperienced guy would give.  Mine
> > didn't work after I installed Vmware because it wouldn't compile, so I
> > switched to akmod and mine worked.  I forgot that I have a friend that
> > sent me some packages also to install. I am still having trouble because
> > I have to force quit.  Sorry for the incorrect answer to your problem.
>
> Your problem was with vmware kernel modules. But mine is another thing.
> I don't know, maybe it's better to report it on vmware forums.
>
> Best,
> Adrin.
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> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:55:07 +0200
> From: Axel
> Subject: Re: nautilus-sendto behaviour : bug or not bug ?
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> Le 25/04/2009 19:57, Paul W. Frields a écrit :
> > I could be wrong, but since there's no source code in nautilus-sendto
> > concerning gajim, in which case, it's not really a bug, just a TODO.
> > You should probably file a RFE with the upstream in that case.
>
> There is an option allowing the build of the gajim plugin of
> nautilus-sendto. The package from rawhide may have been built without
> it. Should I fill a bug ?
>
> About the thunderbird/Evolution part, I filled a bug.
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:11:49 +0300
> From: Riku Sepp?l?
> Subject: Re: Vaio webcam
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> Steven Stern wrote:
> > Anyone have the webcam working on a Sony Vaio?
> >
> > The system detects it but doesn't seem to be able to use it. Cheese
> > reports no camera detected.
> >
> > i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: EDID invalid.
> > usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> > usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=05ca, idProduct=1830
> > usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
> > usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>
> That camera is based on Ricoh R5U87x chipset, you need firmware to make
> it work. You can get the firmware and instructions how to load it here
> http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
>
> Riku
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:12:36 +0100
> From: Ron Yorston
> Subject: Re: GNOME clock first day of week???
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> Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> > On 04/27/2009 02:27 AM, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just noticed that the GNOME clock applet (clock-applet) has Tuesday
> > > as the first day of the week.
> > >
> > > Is there something bizarrely wrong with my locale, and if so how do I
> > > change it?
> > >
> > > Or is it an upstream bug?
> >
> > It could be a locale specific bug since I don't see it. Do file a bug
> > report in http://bugzilla.redhat.com
>
> Already reported, more than once.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473445
>
> Ron
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:34:07 +0200
> From: Gianluca Cecchi
> Subject: re: rawhide report: 20090425 changes
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:46:50 +0000 (UTC) rawhide fedoraproject org wrote:
> > gnome-power-manager-2.26.1-2.fc11
> > Thu Apr 23 2009 Richard Hughes<rhughes redhat com>  - 2.26.1-2
> > Backport a patch from upstream that was missed for 2.26.1 that fixes
> >  the DPMS timeout slider in gnome-power-preferences.
> > Tue Apr 21 2009 Richard Hughes<rhughes redhat com>  - 2.26.1-1
> > Update to 2.26.1
> > Fix the low capacity warning to fix rh#489832
> > Backport DPMS and IDLETIME fixes from master to fix multiple bugs
> > Connect to gnome-session and exit on logout
> > Remove upstreamed patches
>
> Using Dell laptop XPS with f11 beta since 4 weeks ago and it seems the
> power manager was always ok.
> Tipically life of my batter is about 2 hours at the moment (battery
> has one year of life)
>
> I update every day rawhide (or as soon as available) and at the moment I have:
> gnome-power-manager-2.26.0-2.fc11.x86_64
> applied on Apr 24 11:20:32, so the problem below could be an effect of
> this update.
> I powered off the laptop on Friday evening fully charged (with cable connected).
> Today I started it with cable disconnected.
> I saw a strange icon for battery after about 10 minutes.... in the
> sense that it was the icon when you are almost out of charge at all.
> So i pointed the mouse and saw the tooltip saying
>
> 1h30minutes remaining in term of time (correct), but only 0,4% in term
> of percentage......
>
> Just in case I suddenly plug the cable but the shutdown procedure
> began and the laptop powered off itself....
>
> the good is that with f10 I was never able to get it ;-)
> the bad was that actually the correct measure was the one with the
> time (1h30min)...
> I report it because it seems that what fixed in changelog is not
> exactly related with my case....
>
> Anyone else? Anyway  I'm going to update and see if this is fixed....
> Gianluca
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:05:45 +0800
> From: Liam
> Subject: Re: Will add a few fedora upgrade test cases, your feedback
>    would be welcome
> To: [e-mail]
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> > It is my understanding that since ext4 will be the default fs for F11,
> > existing non-boot ext3 partitions are converted to ext4 as part of the
> > upgrade from F9/10 to F11. Whether there is an option given to the user,
> > I can't say at this point - probably not.
> >
> > Since the upgraded system is different from the original F9/F10 starting
> > point (in many ways - ext4 is just one), any repeated testing (necessary
> > because the first few trials will fail..) will require a restore of
> >
> > the F9/F10 system before the next test.
> >
> > I think it is only fair to the testers to make this point upfront before
> > they test the Upgrade.
>
> The file system did not be converted to ext4 after upgrade.I tested this
> on VM.
> After upgrade ,we can see such output:
> [root@dhcp-130 ~]# cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.29-0.258.2.3.rc8.git2.fc11.i586
> ([e-mail]) (gcc version 4.4.0 20090323 (Red
> Hat 4.4.0-0.29) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Mar 24 18:37:23 EDT 2009
> [root@dhcp-130 ~]# mount
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/liam/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=liam)
> /dev/sr0 on /media/Fedora 11-Beta i386 DVD type iso9660
> (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)
> [root@dhcp-130 ~]# blkid /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00:
> UUID="137931c7-a365-40f4-b740-2ef5dc05b725" TYPE="ext3"
> [root@dhcp-130 ~]#  tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> tune2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> Filesystem volume name:<none>
> Last mounted on:<not available>
> Filesystem UUID:          137931c7-a365-40f4-b740-2ef5dc05b725
> Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
> Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
> Filesystem features:      has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index
> filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file
> Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash
> Default mount options:    user_xattr acl
> Filesystem state:         clean
> Errors behavior:          Continue
> Filesystem OS type:       Linux
> Inode count:              376832
> Block count:              1507328
> Reserved block count:     75366
> Free blocks:              481565
> Free inodes:              226416
> First block:              0
> Block size:               4096
> Fragment size:            4096
> Reserved GDT blocks:      367
> Blocks per group:         32768
> Fragments per group:      32768
> Inodes per group:         8192
> Inode blocks per group:   512
> Filesystem created:       Tue Apr 14 01:56:22 2009
> Last mount time:          Mon Apr 27 23:01:58 2009
> Last write time:          Mon Apr 27 23:01:58 2009
> Mount count:              7
> Maximum mount count:      -1
> Last checked:             Tue Apr 14 01:56:22 2009
> Check interval:           0 (<none>)
> Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
> Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
> First inode:              11
> Inode size:              256
> Required extra isize:     28
> Desired extra isize:      28
> Journal inode:            8
> First orphan inode:       204971
> Default directory hash:   half_md4
> Directory Hash Seed:      c6583432-25e1-464b-af7b-1bd6f19396d6
> Journal backup:           inode blocks
> [root@dhcp-130 ~]#
>
> Thanks
> Liam
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:15:15 -0400
> From: sean darcy
> Subject: Re: F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD?
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> drago01 wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM, sean darcy  wrote:
> > > With all the changes in F11, I'm trying to set up a Windows XP virtual
> > > machine with kvm/qemu. But not joy:
> > >
> > > virt-install
> > > ERROR    Host does not support any virtualization options
> > >
> > > but /proc/cpuinfo shows svm (this is AMD).
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
> >
> > is the kvm-amd module loaded?
> >
> > lsmod | grep kvm should show it.
> > if not try to load it by doing modprobe kvm-amd
>
> Yes it is:
>
> lsmod | grep kvm
> kvm_amd                30940  3
> kvm                   153112  1 kvm_amd
>
> The problem was that not enough of the qemu stack was installed. I had
> qemu-common, qemu-x86, qemu-system-x86 installed by yum. I'd assumed
> they pull in whatever was necessary. Silly me. Installed all qemu, now I
> get the new machine box.
>
> But where do I choose paravirtual? I don't see any choice in the new
> machine dialog.
>
> sean
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:20:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert P. J. Day"
> Subject: Re: F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD?
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, sean darcy wrote:
> > drago01 wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM, sean darcy  wrote:
> > > > With all the changes in F11, I'm trying to set up a Windows XP virtual
> > > > machine with kvm/qemu. But not joy:
> > > >
> > > > virt-install
> > > > ERROR    Host does not support any virtualization options
> > > >
> > > > but /proc/cpuinfo shows svm (this is AMD).
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > is the kvm-amd module loaded?
> > >
> > > lsmod | grep kvm should show it.
> > > if not try to load it by doing modprobe kvm-amd
> >
> > Yes it is:
> >
> > lsmod | grep kvm
> > kvm_amd                30940  3
> > kvm                   153112  1 kvm_amd
> >
> > The problem was that not enough of the qemu stack was installed. I
> > had qemu-common, qemu-x86, qemu-system-x86 installed by yum. I'd
> > assumed they pull in whatever was necessary. Silly me. Installed all
> > qemu, now I get the new machine box.
>
> hang on ... so which qemu-related package was missing?  i'm thinking
> qemu-user but it would be nice to clarify that.
> rday
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> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:55:54 -0400
> From: sean darcy
> Subject: Re: F11 kvm-qemu: isn't svm enough on AMD?
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> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, sean darcy wrote:
> > > drago01 wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM, sean darcy  wrote:
> > > > > With all the changes in F11, I'm trying to set up a Windows XP virtual
> > > > > machine with kvm/qemu. But not joy:
> > > > >
> > > > > virt-install
> > > > > ERROR    Host does not support any virtualization options
> > > > >
> > > > > but /proc/cpuinfo shows svm (this is AMD).
> > > > >
> > > > > What am I missing?
> > > >
> > > > is the kvm-amd module loaded?
> > > >
> > > > lsmod | grep kvm should show it.
> > > > if not try to load it by doing modprobe kvm-amd
> > >
> > > Yes it is:
> > >
> > > lsmod | grep kvm
> > > kvm_amd                30940  3
> > > kvm                   153112  1 kvm_amd
> > >
> > > The problem was that not enough of the qemu stack was installed. I
> > > had qemu-common, qemu-x86, qemu-system-x86 installed by yum. I'd
> > > assumed they pull in whatever was necessary. Silly me. Installed all
> > > qemu, now I get the new machine box.
> >
> > hang on ... so which qemu-related package was missing?  i'm thinking
> > qemu-user but it would be nice to clarify that.
> > rday
>
> I don't know. I'd first done yum groupinstall virtualization. As I
> remember, that only brought in qemu-img. When that didn't work I
> installed qemu*x86. I may have installed qemu-user also. Finally yum
> install qemu*. Then it worked.
>
> Any clues on paravirtualization?
>
> sean
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:56:26 -0400
> From: Scott Robbins
> Subject: Re: Tap on mousepad not working
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:27:41PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> > On 04/26/2009 06:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > > Recently (I don't know exactly when it happened) on an Asus EEEPC
> > > 1000HE, a single tap being a left button click stopped working.
> >
> > It seems to be turned off by default in PREFERENCES ->  MOUSE on the
> > touchpad tab.
>
> Ah, Ok.  I guess I'll just put my synclient commands in .xinitrc.
>
> Thanks very much.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:25:34 -0400,
  James J Catchpole  wrote:
> Last night I applied the latest Fedora 11 (Rawhide) updates
> which included updates to X. Now both my KDE and Gnome
> Displays are damaged. One symptom is that the background
> color for all panels is BLACK. As this problem occurs for
> both KDE and Gnome I am assuming that there is an X
> problem.

Try xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-7.fc11 from Koji.
Some fixes for r690s went into xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-5.fc11 seem to have
caused problems. xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-6.fc11 was an attempted fix and
with xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-7.fc11 some stuff was reverted.

I have an rv530 and xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-7.fc11 is working acceptibly.
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-4.fc11 also worked OK with this card.