On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:45:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> For now, this is just a heads-up that it seems to break the >> perspective control in the gimp. It's taken me 3 days to pin the >> blame here, I'm still not entirely convinced (for one thing, >> rendering of the gimp windows was horribly slow, and now that I've >> reverted this patch it still seems slow). Comments welcome. >> > In fact, I was wrong. Among the other upgrades were the xorg > server and the xf86-video-ati driver. With those, xorg was rock > solid (unlike the previous versions on my old r100/r200-ish cards). > > I've now reverted to a backup from the day I last edited photos > without problems. Sure enough, xorg crashed (probably in a > screensaver) within 15 minutes, but the perspective control worked > fine. > > I've now confirmed that the expat fixes-3 patch is working OK > (fixes-2 can give problems with perl packages), will commit that > soon. Also, the xorg-server update seems fine. The problem appears > when I upgrade the ati driver (either to 6.13.2, or to current git). > That is "counter intuitative" - it's the mouse dragging on a control > on the screen which stops working. Possibly, there is an increased > version requirement for something else. > > At the moment, I need to do the remaining updates for my desktop, > then I'll start bisecting. Perhaps I should just cut my losses and > get newer hardware. > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
This probably an acceleration issue with the ATI driver. You could turn off XAA and see what goes on then. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
