On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 21:22, Didier Moens wrote: > > Running an IBM A30p , i830MP, ATI Radeon Mobility-M6 32MB. > OS : RH 7.2 + assorted RawHides (kernel 2.4.18-0.12, XFree 4.2.0-6.45).
[...] > I am not exactly experiencing lockups, however there is heavy and rapid > screen blanking/flashing when switching between X, VT's, and/or full > screen VMware DGA2 sessions. > > - This is temporarily solved by using the energy-saving LCD-panel > switch-off by means of the keyboard shorcut (Fn-F3), until the next VT > switch. There may be no way around this due to the way VT switching works. > I notice heavy screen corruption in the mouse pointer vicinity when > running VMware 3.x (Win2K guest) in full-screen, which implements DGA 2.0. > > - This occurs with stock XFree86 4.2.0, RedHat 4.2.0-6.45 rpms, and > 4.2.99.x CVS (20020329) ; > - This behaviour does *not* occur when using the GATOS ati.2 4.2.0 CVS > drivers (http://gatos.sourceforge.net). So let's hope GATOS will contribute any DGA fixes they have... > Running a 1280x1024 (or lower) RTCW ("Return to Castle Wolfenstein") > OpenGL/Mesa session in a native 1600x1200 X-resolution relocates the > application to the lower left of the screen instead of using the screen > expansion feature. Do you have 1280x1024 in the Modes line of the display subsection? Does it work when you switch manually with ctrl-alt-{+,-}? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
