On Fri, 31 May 2002, Chris Howells wrote:
> I seem to have discovered a nasty interaction between framebuffer and DRI/DRM
> in OpenGL applications. I can reproduce this problem in at least Return to
> Castle Wolfenstein (version 1.1b) and Tux Racer.
>
> I am using a 32 MB ATI Rage Pro 128 on Debian woody (XFree86 4.1). If I run
> Tuxracer or RTCW, and wait for the game to load, everything is alright.
> However if I switch to a spare virtual terminal, and switch back to X, the
> fonts become illegible -- they just appear as coloured boxes with no
> outlines, making things unplayable.
>
> The problem does not occur when using software based OpenGL rendering which is
> why I believe DRI/DRM is involved. This problem only occurs when framebuffer
> is enabled in the kernel, if framebuffer is disabled the problem disappears,
> so I believe framebuffer is also at fault.
Do you use `option UseFBDev' in your XF86Config?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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