[solved] Graphics broken in some apps after upgrade

I did a fairly big upgrade a few day back, after travelling around away from decent internet. Since the update some of my apps (so far, Firefox, Thunderbird, gnome system monitor but not sunbird) display a completely garbled interface. The window decoration is fine in most, but not all, cases, but everything else is bad:
Firefox still works - the box near the cursor is the search box on the google homepage. If I tab through to it I can search and the window title changes accordingly.
So far I've tried:
1) deleting my xorg.conf
2) rolling back (which fixes the problem)
I tried re-adding packages a few at a time, but that didn't work - the problems didn't come back till the next reboot or possibly the next restart of X. And I broke pacman in the process, so I'm reluctant to try again.
As I suspect this is hardware dependent, I'm running a IBM TP41 which has a ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, and I'm using the open source video drivers, not flgrx.
I'm more or less out of ideas, so your help is appreciated.
Edit: It's getting late in my timezone. I'll check back tomorrow.
Edit2: added solved to title
Last edited by Jack B (2010-04-21 19:52:05)

I already have radeon.modeset=0 on the end of my kernel line, I think I disabled KMS a month or two ago when it was (very briefly) enabled by default. IIRC my system was very broken with KMS enabled back then, I haven't tried turning it back on.
I've found xf86-video-ati-6.12.4-3 to work, and xf86-video-ati-6.12.192-1 not to work, irrespective of ati-dri version. I've just noticed 6.13 seems to be out, so I may try building that with ABS, and see if it fixes it.
EDIT: or maybe I won't, as that needs xorg 1.8 and I don't have enough time to build that and all it's deps just now
For now I've just set pacman to ignore the package, which works as a temporary solution. Are there any diagnostics I can do to help pin down the problem?
Last edited by Jack B (2010-04-20 22:05:07)

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