On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 06:20, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:23:09PM +0000, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> > this existed in Mandrake9.0 (but not 8.2) and is also here in Beta1 of
> > 9.1 (just downloading the latest cooker, but not holding out any hopes)
> > 
> > [mainly] anti-aliased text that is rendered to screen B is frequently
> > rendered to screen A but opening a menu or switch desktops wipes it...
> > 
> > Setup is an 1 Gig Athlon, Matrox G550Dual, 2x Iiyama 17" VMPro's
> > (atleast that's what the drivers think it is, it's actually Belinea 22"
> > Pro Digitals), 512meg PC133 RAM (2x256meg) and a 100gig of random IDE
> > disks - I also have a WinTV card and a few other random (hopefully
> > unrelated goodies) in the machine...
> > 
> > Additionally, the MandrakeLinux menu is empty (contains "What To Do?"
> > submenu but that is empty too) and DRI/XVideo fails to work on Display2
> > - but I always had that so not worried about it
> > 
> > I hope this is the right sorta info you need.
> > 
> > The install was vanilla 9.0 (which restarting X seemed to screw up
> > fonts) so I just threw 9.1b1 on the top of it.... This did magic like
> > make Evolution work (1.0.8 on multiple remote Imap servers was REALLY
> > unstable 1.2 is much nicer) and the new Galeon looks just sweeeeeeeet :)
> > 
> > Actually, /home was not wiped -- so maybe there's a .dotfile that is
> > causing the problems? The /home partition is left over from my RedHat6
> > days.... :-/   I "rm -rf .gnome*" to see if it helped, to no avail....
> 
> Known bug in the Matrox drivers.  It's been there for a long time.  As
> far as I know nobody has figured out why it occurs...

Google say:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00200.html

aka: XRender on Xinerama bug. Which I already worked out :) But there is
a test/fix driver available in that thread.

-- 
Darran D. Rimron-Molloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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