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Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:39 pm
by 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
xeno74 wrote:caseycullen wrote:I haven't had similar graphical issues. Does that happen often?
Yes, it happens very often.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:42 pm
by 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
xeno74 wrote:caseycullen wrote:I haven't had similar graphical issues. Does that happen often?
Yes, it happens very often.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 4:14 am
by xeno74
Casey,
I will compile the latest Mesa at the weekend.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:33 am
by 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
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:41 am
by xeno74
Casey,
Marco with adaptive compositor works too. Only the Compton GPU compositor and Compiz are responsible for the graphical issues.
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:00 pm
by kilaueabart
caseycullen wrote: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?
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:08 pm
by 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
xeno74 wrote:Casey,
Marco with adaptive compositor works too. Only the Compton GPU compositor and Compiz are responsible for the graphical issues.
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:41 am
by xeno74
caseycullen wrote: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/.
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
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:21 pm
by 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
xeno74 wrote: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/.
Please add
/sbin and
/usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable. Thanks.
Code: Select all
# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_18.2.6-1_powerpc.deb
Code: Select all
# 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
Code: Select all
dpkg -i compiz-gnome_0.8.16.1-10_powerpc.deb
And then the window decoration works.
Screenshot of Fienix with Compiz:
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:35 pm
by xeno74
caseycullen wrote: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
