Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

[caseycullen]

I had similar issues once, quite a while ago, but upgrading mesa resolved it. Can you try building mesa from source and see if that fixes the problem for you? If your build works we can use your build instead. Otherwise I can try building a new version sometime next week.
-Casey

I haven't had similar graphical issues. Does that happen often?

Yes, it happens very often.

[caseycullen]

I'm still using a version 4 kernel. I'll upgrade the kernel and see if that has any effect. Otherwise if you have a chance to build mesa from source we can see if it fixes the issue.
-Casey

I haven't had similar graphical issues. Does that happen often?

Yes, it happens very often.

[xeno74]

Casey,

I will compile the latest Mesa at the weekend.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi Casey,

I tested Mesa 19.0.0 today. It works with Fienix but it doesn't solve the graphical issues. I figured out, that Marco with GPU compositor and Compiz are responsible for the graphical issues. I selected Marco without compositor and this solved the issue.



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Casey,

Marco with adaptive compositor works too. Only the Compton GPU compositor and Compiz are responsible for the graphical issues.

Cheers,
Christian

[kilaueabart]

I've released a Fienix-specific update to Arctic Fox (appended ".2" to the general release) that fixes certain issues with how widgets were displayed on some websites.
kilaueabart - please update Arctic Fox and let me know if this issue is resolved for you.
-Casey

Sorry to be so late getting to this.
The fix works for the page in the picture, so I assume my problem is cured.
A while after writing the above, I happened to try the site with Firefox EXR. It turns out it is only fixed for Arctic Fox! (Which is just fine, of course.)
By the way, is having to log in to every site that Firefox would do automatically just a price we pay for the other improvements, such as speed and being able to read text gadgets?

[caseycullen]

Hi Christian,
Could you please try to downgrade Mesa to one of your previous versions that you know to function appropriately?
Compton and Compiz both use hardware acceleration so an issue with Mesa could affect them both.
-Casey

Casey,

Marco with adaptive compositor works too. Only the Compton GPU compositor and Compiz are responsible for the graphical issues.

Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi Christian,
Could you please try to downgrade Mesa to one of your previous versions that you know to function appropriately?
Compton and Compiz both use hardware acceleration so an issue with Mesa could affect them both.
-Casey

Hi Casey,

I installed Mesa 18.2.2 today. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the graphical issues.

After that I installed Mesa 18.2.6-1 from the directory /var/cache/apt/archives/.

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export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

Please add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable. Thanks.

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# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_18.2.6-1_powerpc.deb

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# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-glx_18.2.6-1_powerpc.deb

Unfortunately the downgrade to Mesa 18.2.6-1 doesn't solve the graphical issues.

BTW, the window decoration of Compiz doesn't work. I tried to install compiz-gnome but without success because it needs an older compiz-core package.

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compiz-gnome:
  Depends: compiz-core (=2:0.8.14-3) but 2:0.8.16.1-10 is to be installed

I downloaded the package compiz-gnome_0.8.16.1-10_powerpc.deb from ftp.kr.debian.org and after that I was able to install it with

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dpkg -i compiz-gnome_0.8.16.1-10_powerpc.deb

And then the window decoration works.

Screenshot of Fienix with Compiz:



Cheers,
Christian

[caseycullen]

Hi Christian,
Thanks for the information! I use Marco/Compton so I didn't know there was a problem with Compiz. Does the version of Compiz you installed fix the display distortion problem as well?
-Casey

Hi Casey,

I installed Mesa 18.2.2 today. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the graphical issues.

After that I installed Mesa 18.2.6-1 from the directory /var/cache/apt/archives/.

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export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

Please add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable. Thanks.

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# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_18.2.6-1_powerpc.deb

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# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-glx_18.2.6-1_powerpc.deb

Unfortunately the downgrade to Mesa 18.2.6-1 doesn't solve the graphical issues.

BTW, the window decoration of Compiz doesn't work. I tried to install compiz-gnome but without success because it needs an older compiz-core package.

Code: Select all

compiz-gnome:
  Depends: compiz-core (=2:0.8.14-3) but 2:0.8.16.1-10 is to be installed

I downloaded the package compiz-gnome_0.8.16.1-10_powerpc.deb from ftp.kr.debian.org and after that I was able to install it with

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dpkg -i compiz-gnome_0.8.16.1-10_powerpc.deb

And then the window decoration works.

Screenshot of Fienix with Compiz:



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi Christian,
Thanks for the information! I use Marco/Compton so I didn't know there was a problem with Compiz. Does the version of Compiz you installed fix the display distortion problem as well?
-Casey

Hi Casey,

It only fixes the window decoration issue. The display distortion still exists. I think the issue come from another Debian package.

BTW, your wallpapers are great! Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Christian