Sometimes problems with the visibility of threads in thunderbird

[poma]

On 09.07.2014 12:23, Joachim Backes wrote:
> 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
>
>

What Desktop Environment is in use?
This is probably related with graphics acceleration.


poma