Sometimes problems with the visibility of threads in thunderbird

[Joachim Backes]

On 07/09/2014 11:35 AM, poma wrote:
> On 09.07.2014 11:12, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 07/09/2014 10:29 AM, poma wrote:
>>> On 09.07.2014 09:12, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'M running thunderbird-24.6.0-1.fc20.x86_64. Sometimes (rather often,
>>>> but not always) having problems with threads in thunderbird: After
>>>> opening a thread, all opened sublines are unvisible, until I move the
>>>> mouse pointer over them (without click): then they will appear.
>>>>
>>>> This happens both with ati and nvidia video cards.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody has this effect too?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>>
>>>> Joachim Backes
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope, everything is absolutely visible - nouveau.
>>
>> Having running nouveau too (nvidia gforce 210), but sometimes invisible.
>>
>> Joachim Backes
> 
> OK, to see whether the issue is related to Xorg nouveau video module for NVIDIA graphics chipsets i.e. 'nouveau_drv.so', temporarily you can replace it with the Xorg basic modesetting fallback video module i.e. 'modesetting_drv.so'.
> 
> # yum install xorg-x11-drv-modesetting
> 
> Create a file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-modesetting.conf"
> with the following four lines:
> Section "Device"
>      Identifier "video0"
>      Driver     "modesetting"
> EndSection
> 
> After that restart X, or simply reboot. :)
> Everything is visible?

Seems to help, thank you. Kernel issue?

Joachim Backes


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