[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#597378: Bug#597378: [fglrx] wrong colors (pink instead of blue, green instead of orange) in some images of XULRunner applications (Iceweasel, Icedove)

[Filipus Klutiero]

  On 2010-09-19 13:41, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 19.09.2010 19:37, schrieb Filipus Klutiero:
>>   On 2010-09-19 04:32, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>>> Am 19.09.2010 08:56, schrieb Filipus Klutiero:
>>>> Package: fglrx-glx
>>>> Version: 1:10-7-1
>>>> Severity: important
>>>>
>>>> fglrx 10.7 has an important regression from 10.6. I used 10.7 for about
>>>> 10 hours, and only noticed it in Iceweasel and Icedove (the only
>>>> XULRunner applications I use). I checked this also affects Iceape. I use
>>>> KDE. This happens with experimental or testing versions.
>>>>
>>>> Colors in some images of these applications are rendered as different
>>>> colors. Basically, blue shows as pink and orange shows as green. Green
>>>> seems brown. I can't say what's the pattern. Affected images are not
>>>> completely broken, they can still be recognized since the shapes are
>>>> intact. I have no idea why some images show correctly and some don't.
>>>> Amazingly, this rendering problem can be captured in a screenshot. The
>>>> Icedove screenshot attached shows this very well in several icons,
>>>> including the Local folders icon, one of the spam icons, the address
>>>> book icon, the Write icon and the replied to icon. About half of images
>>>> are affected. In a sample of 6 files, all png, 3 were affected, 3
>>>> weren't. As you can see in the screenshot, the Spam icon shows fine in
>>>> the column header, but wrongly as a folder icon. This bug is noticed in
>>>> 1 or few minutes of usage of these applications and is now immediately
>>>> obvious to me. I'm using a Radeon HD 5650. Downgrading to 10.6 fixes.
>>>> Restoring the default X/ATI configuration doesn't solve. This persists
>>>> in 10.9.
>>>>
>>> Does it work for you if you shutdown kdm,gdm whatever, X11 etc at all
>>> and type as root: aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
>>>
>>>
>>> Reboot and then try again and give me the result of grep -i 2d
>>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>
(**) fglrx(0): ATI 2D Acceleration Architecture disabled, using XAA

The bug happens regardless of whether I use unstable's cairo, of whether 
the environment variable is set, and of the acceleration architecture.