Sometimes problems with the visibility of threads in thunderbird

[Joachim Backes]

On 07/09/2014 12:28 PM, poma wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I'm using gnome3.

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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Kernel-3.15.4-200.fc20.x86_64


Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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