Severe Plasma visual corruption

[Simon St James]

Hi Aaron,

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 23:39:24 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Simon St James wrote:
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 20:04:21 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Simon St James wrote:
> > > > http://etotheipiplusone.com/kde4daily-4-1-corrupt-plasma.png
> > > >
> > > > This is a self-compiled KDE4 install (rev 810613) using qt-copy.
> > > > KDE4Daily is based on Kubuntu 8.04 and runs in Qemu.  As you can see
> > > > from the screenshot, KRunner is also corrupted, but other KDE4 apps
> > > > I've tried (and, interestingly, the "Colliding Mice" GraphicsView
> > > > example) seem to look absolutely fine.
> > >
> > > i'll bet it's argb visuals. upgraded your x.org drivers lately?
> >
> > I just followed mwoehlke's lead on IRC and commented out the
> > checkComposite() inside plasmaapp.cpp, and it now works perfectly - yay!
>
> so another broken x.org driver, perhaps. what x.org version and driver are
> you using?

X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

I'm using Qemu, so I'm guessing it's using some no-frills VESA driver or 
something, but have no idea how to check :/

Si.