Re: Another X problem in 10.x (regression compared to 9)

[John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 06:47:14PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> I ran into another X problem with 10.1 and my Radeon 5450 card. It may
> or may not be specific about that card: I need to do more experiments.
>
> The trigger for this issue *may* be Firefox: when playing a video on
> https://web.whatsapp.com/ . However the video that may have triggered
> the issue seems to have been removed by the sender, so it's a bit hard
> to retry exactly.

This kind of sounds similar to this issue:

https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=58217

This happens for me on a Thinkpad T420, but on a "newer" T430
I got from a relative, the issue does not occur.

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> I will have to do more experiments to see if I can trigger this on
> different hardware (I don't care so much to experiment on my main
> desktop machine). So it may be a Radeon-only problem, or not.
>
> I don't think this ever happened with 9.x so it seems like a regression.

On the T420, this issue occurred for me on 9.x

Regards,
John