Sometimes problems with the visibility of threads in thunderbird

[Joachim Backes]

On 07/09/2014 12:01 PM, poma wrote:
> On 09.07.2014 11:50, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> 
> I'd picked this
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
> 
> But before that, take a look at
> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-nouveau/bugs/all

Hi Poma,

I will check these 2 URL's, but as I told already in the first mail of
this thread, this is possibly an issue for the radeon driver too
(SAPPHIRE HD 5450).

Kind regards

Joachim Backes


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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
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