RE: Graphics Problems with gnome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Frankish
> Sent: Monday, 05 May, 2014 16:35
> To: 'gnome-shell-list gnome org'
> Cc: 'Jasper St. Pierre'
> Subject: RE: Graphics Problems with gnome-shell-3.10.3
>
> > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:31 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
> > > > I've compiled gnome-3.10.x from source to run on a machine with an intel core-i7 2640m 2.8GHz cpu 
> > > > with 8GB RAM and intel hd3000 graphics on 64bit tinycorelinux using a 3.8.13 kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Using gnome-session/gnome-shell, most things seem to work, but the graphics display is very poor.
> > > >
> > > > The display background continually turns bright white and dragging any window produces a trail of 
> > > > multiple windows behind it. The only way to fix this seems to use the mac/special/windows key to move 
> > > > to the "task-switcher" screen and back again.
> > > >
> > > > Setting CLUTTER_PAINT="disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling" does not seem to help appreciably.
> > > >
> > > > Are the above problems caused by the graphics not being powerful enough or is it a software problem?
> > > >
> > > > If it is a software problem, are there any patches available to fix this without moving to 
> > > > gnome-3.12.x? The software in use is listed below.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > John
> > > It's an issue with the background and can be fixed by setting your background to a constant color. You 
> > > can also apply the four patches in this bug, but I'm not sure if it will cleanly apply on top of 3.10.x:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722149
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> >
> > I don't think this is an issue with the background - if I chose a
> > plain colour from gnome-backgrounds, it does not improve things - or
> > perhaps I misunderstood?
> >
> > Most of the four patches do not apply cleanly so as an alternative I
> > took "backgrounds.js" from gnome-shell-3.13.1, but this did not
> > improve things either...
>
> I pasted the error log below, but nothing seems point to what the problem
> might be?
I played around with this some more and checked Xorg.0.log for errors - see attached - without finding 
anything.

The trail of windows produced by dragging a window only happens when the window crosses the background, it 
does not happen when crossing another window.

The background "white-out" happens every time I access gnome-control-center via the icons in the right hand 
corner of the top panel and randomly at other times.

As before using the mac/special/windows key to swap to the task-switcher fixes things, but gets tiresome :P

There must surely be a way to fix this?

John

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