On 9/7/05, Sean <<a href="mailto:seanlkml@sympatico.ca">seanlkml@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On an up to date -development system the preferences window of Deer Park alpha 2 is unusable. While some of the text can just barely be read, most of it is unreadable. Only the 6 tabs along the top of the window can be read, but even they are broken up and hard to read. Most of the Edit->Preferences window is see-through (ie. as you move the window around you actually see the contents of the desktop, or window below it). If a screen shot would help, i'd be happy to post one. Nobody else seems to mention this problem in Bugzilla or in the archives so i'm wondering if this isn't actually a problem with the <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a> server? Bugzilla 155213 does mention a problem with i865 video, but i'm not sure it's related. Perhaps the Deer Park preferences window is supposed to be translucent and that feature is just not working on <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a> for i865 based video? Dmesg does seem to show the kernel complaining a bit, at least about the framebuffer: Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset. agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory. agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G chipsets intelfb: Version 0.9.2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 865G, aperture size 128MB, stolen memory 16252kB intelfb: Mode is interlaced. intelfb: Initial video mode is 1024x768-32@70. Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 intelfb: ring buffer : space: 63368 wanted 65472 intelfb: lockup - turning off hardware acceleration [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 [drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0: mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary Looking for someone to give me a nudge in the right direction as to how to tackle this problem. Thanks, Sean</blockquote><div> Try renaming your .mozilla directory, restart firefox, and see if it helps. </div></div> [I sort of remember some issue with something there.] tom -- Tom London