[Bug 178274] Re: [hardy] firefox breaks on some pages with an X error

[Tawsi]

I think this may be a duplicate of

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/205599

gecko based browsers were dying on me on this gif 
http://live.xbox.com/xweb/lib/images/MyXboxSkinImageSheet.gif
on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Hardy, including the live cds.

On downloading the image and trying to open it in xpaint I got the same
error, it turned out to be related to the xorg exa code that stops
pixmaps of width larger than 8188 being allocated, which gecko seems to
do for non-simple images of these dimensions. One way to test if it is
that is to try and use XAA instead by putting

option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

in the video driver section of xorg.conf

Not all cards seem to be using exa which may be why only some people
experience it. I attached a patch to the other bug based on a discussion
on the xorg mailing list which fixed all my problems but have no idea if
that's the best approach.

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[hardy] firefox breaks on some pages with an X error
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