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I'm currently trying out the Kubuntu 11.10 PowerPC release and whenever the Kwin Desktop Effects are activated the desktop is what I can only describe as purple. It's as if somebody removed colors from the spectrum but I can't decide what colors it removed. For instance, anything that's normally blue is a violet color. So Blue and Red are there, but I'm thinking green isn't. Any ideas? I disabled the effects and I have correct coloring.
Oh and I also get funky artifacts when the effects are active, mainly around the window borders which come up as weird stretched out blocks. |
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What graphics card does this machine have?
It certainly sounds like the graphics driver has some issues here.
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Here's the specs of the machine:
Model: Early 2005 PowerBook G4 CPU: 1.5ghz PowerPC G4 GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 64 megs of dedicated vram. RAM: 2 Gigs SDRAM. HDD: 80 gigs I'll snap a picture of the screen in a minute. |
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The hardware seems to be rather old (R300 chipset). Could you start kwin from a command line with
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Okay I'll place the output here in a moment. In the meantime, here's a video of what I'm talking about (it starts about the time I get an error message during boot which just states that the Broadcom wifi drivers are proprietary): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ywnpJR ... detailpage
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Bug in NPOT codepath. Fixed in 4.8.1 For the rest, i'd say alpha is accounted as red, either for a bug in the graphics drivers, opengl or in kwin - likely because of the Big Endian architecture. a) is /only/ the desktop affected or virtually every window (eg. also kwrite) b) does this happen with the xrender backend
check the 3rd tab c) does it happen on the native graphicssystem
d) does it happen with indirect rendering
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From the video i'd say R&G and B&A are swapped, so it seems all like an endian issue to me....
-> What do other GL applications (such as glxgears, or try tuxracer look like while compositing is suspended (SHIFT+alt+F12)ß |
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As you can see in the video I posted a link to, everything is affected including applications. This is the output I get from kwin --replace &:
XRender seems to work with no problems but of course the performance is greatly reduced when using it. Using the kwin --replace --graphicssystem native & command The artifacts are all corrected, in other words, everything looks normal except everything's still purple. Oh and this is actually KDE 4.7.1. |
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XRender will perform much better with the native graphicssystem.
This is likely endian unawareness of GL_texture_from_pixmap The color twisting is likely endian unawareness of either GL_texture_from_pixmap or all OpenGL a) are the titlebars and shadows color twisted as well? (notably only active windows would have "shadows" fading from blue to black ...) - also this might depend on the used graphicssystem ("native" ./. "raster") b) please try glxgears w/o compositing. Just a static screenshot is sufficient. |
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what might also be interesting is using the raster graphicssystem and providing a screenshot of Present Windows with the filter being used. If it is an endian issue in GL_texture_from_pixmap the filter image should be fine as it doesn't use texture from pixmap for raster graphics system.
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