Bug 155151

Summary:	Re-sizing the calculator widget too big removes its black background.
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Bill Egert <begert>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Bill Egert 2008-01-05 17:06:00 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

If the Calculator widget is re-sized to be larger, it's black background disappears.

I kind of like the clear background and don't know how badly I actually want this to be fixed :P


Screen Captures here: http://begert.blogspot.com/2008/01/calculator-widget-loses-its-background.html

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-05 20:30:14 UTC

this looks like the same sort of problem as in BR155146 ... i wonder if it is indeed the same problem showing in two different ways.

what video driver are you using? composite or not?

Comment 2 Bill Egert 2008-01-05 20:44:43 UTC

Using nvidia driver provided by Kubuntu 7.10

I have composite off.

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-06 01:15:18 UTC

if it's not toooo much trouble, could you switch to the open source driver and see if the same problem persists? or upgrade to the newest nvidia binary driver here:

 http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html

which has a bunch of argb fixes and see if that helps any? if not, i'll have to try and muddle through this as best i can without being able to reproduce and no real leads as to what the problem would be; i'll still do my best though ;)

oh, and the reason that i think it may be driver related is that the argb issues are tiling related which may be why it happens at certain sizes (which probably equal the tile size)

Comment 4 Bill Egert 2008-01-06 15:41:17 UTC

It is possible that I might be using the opensource driver, and not the nvidia one.  When I logged back into my Kubuntu 3.5 session I had checked that I wanted to use the nvidia driver but it said I wasn't using it....but I guess thats a different story.

I will try and load the beta driver and see if my machine will play nice.

Comment 5 Bill Egert 2008-01-07 14:11:34 UTC

Well.  The good news is that I can no longer reproduce this.  The not as good news is that this is after a re-install of my system.  I was using Kubuntu 64bit, but was having weirdness with my drivers it seems, so I opted to install Kubuntu 32bit over my other install.  I have home on its own partition so it didn't take to long to get back up and running.

I am now definitely using composite with the nvidia driver provided through Kubuntu.  Everything is running along smoothly so far.

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-07 18:26:21 UTC

right, so driver issues rather than plasma issues (i love x.org). thanks for keeping the report up to date =)

Comment 7 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-07 18:26:58 UTC

oh, and just so we know it isn't 64 bit related: my main dev machine for plasma is an amd64 cpu.