KDE 4.4, top panel and black area
Laurent Humblet
mailinglists at invisibleray.com
Wed Mar 17 08:19:51 UTC 2010
Hi,
Since I have upgraded to KDE 4.4, I'm getting the following error (see
snpashot attached): My top panel render some black area as background
for the panel in a strange manner: the top right section of the panel is
black and but when you change the height or the width of the panel, the
background seems to refresh and renders the top grey area again. If you
come back to the original size, the black area appears again.
This is all not too much annoying until you reboot and then the problem
I seemed to have fixed is back.
So here is what I've been doing everyday for the last few weeks:
- black background appears at boot time (size 0)
- change the size of the navigation (let's say two pixels more for the
height of the panel) (size 1)
- background is normal again
- reboot (or shutdown end of the day, restart the next morning)
- new resized background (size 1) is black (and so is size 0)
- change the size of the navigation (size 2)
- background is normal again
- reboot
- new resized background (size 2) is black (and so is size 0 and size 1)
So it seems that the panel background image get resampled every time I
resize it to a normal background but then that background gets black for
some reason when I reboot.
I think that those resized backgrounds are stored somewhere on my
computer and their saving system might be corrupted and save only a
black version of the image. The current 'non-black' screenshot is in
the computer's RAM while the computer is running so it's not black until
it's being saved onto the computer and re-loaded at the next reboot and
so loaded as black as it's been saved as black (or so I believe).
See the following attached screenshots for more info :
- kde_4_4_top_black.png
- kde_4_4_top_resized.png
Please let me know if there is a fix for this, I'm running out of panel
size options, my top panel now has a black area for almost all different
possible panel sizes.
Cheers,
Laurent
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> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:18:06 +0100
> From: Cedric Brandenbourger <branc426 at gmail.com>
> Subject: plymouth and nouveau
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> Hi,
>
> Just got a problem after upgrading to these latest packages.
> While using the nouveau driver and plymouth, the system freezes at boot.
> After removing plymouth in the recovery mode, the problem disappeard.
> When using the nvidia with plymouth, i didn't get this issue.
> Does somebody also encountered this issue?
>
> C?dric
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:31:22 -0400
> From: Yuriy Kozlov <yuriy.kozlov at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: plymouth and nouveau
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> Define "freezes".
>
> I think I have the same issue with radeon:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/538524
>
> Try adding nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters in grub.
>
> ~ Yuriy
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Cedric Brandenbourger
> <branc426 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just got a problem after upgrading to these latest packages.
>> While using the nouveau driver and plymouth, the system freezes at boot.
>> After removing plymouth in the recovery mode, the problem disappeard.
>> When using the nvidia with plymouth, i didn't get this issue.
>> Does somebody also encountered this issue?
>>
>> C?dric
>>
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> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:41:43 +0100
> From: Cedric Brandenbourger <branc426 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: plymouth and nouveau
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> Yes, its exactly the same problem!
>
> C?dric
>> Define "freezes".
>>
>> I think I have the same issue with radeon:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/538524
>>
>> Try adding nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters in grub.
>>
>> ~ Yuriy
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Cedric Brandenbourger
>> <branc426 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just got a problem after upgrading to these latest packages.
>>> While using the nouveau driver and plymouth, the system freezes at boot.
>>> After removing plymouth in the recovery mode, the problem disappeard.
>>> When using the nvidia with plymouth, i didn't get this issue.
>>> Does somebody also encountered this issue?
>>>
>>> C?dric
>>>
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> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:46:23 -0400
> From: Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: plymouth and nouveau
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> On Sun 14 Mar 2010 04:31:22 pm Yuriy Kozlov wrote:
>> Define "freezes".
>>
>> I think I have the same issue with radeon:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/538524
>
> Meh, same crap here. Looks like the latest freeze-breaking upload
> broke plymouth with Kubuntu. :/ I've not tested yet, but I have a
> pretty good hunch that this bug will make beta isos unusable.
>
>> Try adding nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters in grub.
>
> Removing the splash paramater here will also do the trick,
> hopefully.
>
>> ~ Yuriy
>>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:54:02 +0800
> From: Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com>
> Subject: Re: plymouth and nouveau
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> Cedric Brandenbourger wrote:
>
>> Yes, its exactly the same problem!
>>
>> C?dric
>>> Define "freezes".
>>>
>>> I think I have the same issue with radeon:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/538524
>>>
>>> Try adding nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters in grub.
>>>
>>> ~ Yuriy
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Cedric Brandenbourger
>>> <branc426 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just got a problem after upgrading to these latest packages.
>>>> While using the nouveau driver and plymouth, the system freezes at boot.
>>>> After removing plymouth in the recovery mode, the problem disappeard.
>>>> When using the nvidia with plymouth, i didn't get this issue.
>>>> Does somebody also encountered this issue?
>
> I hope I am not intruding, I am not a developer, just a user.
> I came across this message while googling for an answer.
> I have same problem and I filed a bug report,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
> nouveau/+bug/537853
>
> I added back xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (after removing to solve this issue)
> to try out after some upgrades. Still left unbootable, I then removed
> plymouth to test, booted okay with plymouth removed. I am on kde 4.4.1
>
> Hope this information helps in some way.
>
> Thanks - regards - Goh Lip
>
>
>
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