On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 17:02, Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:16:35 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:06:13AM -0600, Jens Owen wrote: > > > Ian Romanick wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:09:08PM -0600, Jens Owen wrote: > > > >>Making a direct rendering 3D driver render to a windows backing store > > > >>area is a complicated task with very little benefit, IMO. > > > > > > > > Right, but shouldn't purely 2D targets work? I wouldn't think that the > > > > menus in twm are using OpenGL. :) At the very least, if it's not supported > > > > at all, when X is started with +bs, shouldn't it say just say no? That's > > > > the problem that I see. The user requests a feature, X says it's okay, but > > > > then it's not implemented. > > > > > > TWM isn't a good example, because it can efficiently handle expose > > > events without the klunky backingstore feature enabled. Granted, there > > > exists a small subset of applications that benefit from backing store, > > > but it's a very small set in my experience. Most of the 2D applications > > > that can't handle redraws can often achieve the same effect by rendering > > > to pixmaps. > > > > I was just using that as an example the shows the bug I saw. With '+bs' on > > Radeon, the (left-mouse-click) menu is blank until you move the mouse > > pointer over each of the menu items. > > > > > Would disabling the DRI when backingstore is enabled give the semantic > > > consistency you're looking for? I don't have a problem with that, > > > because 99.99% of the users don't need backing store enabled. > > > > I don't think that would help. I commented out the 'Load "dri"' and 'Load > > "glx"' lines from my XF86Config file and got the same behavior. > > This looks like the XAA acceleration is to blame. > > If you add > > Option "XaaNoCPUToScreenColorExpandFill" > > Then you get most of the text back, except for the menu bar. It seems > that this function isn't honouring transparency information. So we could > add NO_TRANSPARENCY to this or find out why it's not working right.
I don't see how transparency comes into play with ColorExpandFill, unless maybe transparency is accidentally enabled from a previous operation? Or is it not using the background color? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
