On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 01:12:45PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 19:31, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> > Hi there.  Since installing 4.2.0 -- first from XFree86 tarballs and
> > then from Debian packages -- I have noticed garbled parts of my
> > display.  The problem seems to be with icons or pictures.  I have
> > taken some scraps of a screenshot:
> > 
> > http://atari.saturn5.com/~jwb/crap.png
> > 
> > The upper part is the toolbar from Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.  The
> > bottom part is the message window of GAIM.  Acrobat uses Motif,
> > while GAIM uses GTK+.  I didn't have this problem before with 4.1,
> > and I don't have this problem in most applications.
> > 
> > I am using a Radeon All-in-Wonder with the ati driver and a flat
> > panel at 1600x1200 with 24-bit color.  The following extensions are
> > available according to xdpyinfo:
> > 
> >     BIG-REQUESTS DOUBLE-BUFFER DPMS Extended-Visual-Information
> >     FontCache GLX LBX MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM
> >     MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD RECORD RENDER SECURITY SGI-GLX SHAPE SYNC
> >     TOG-CUP XC-APPGROUP XC-MISC XFree86-Bigfont XFree86-DGA
> >     XFree86-DRI XFree86-Misc XFree86-VidModeExtension
> >     XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST XVideo
> > 
> > Anyone else seeing this problem?
> 
> I haven't. Can you play with the "XaaNo..." options (man XF86Config-4)
> to see if any of them make it go away? Start with
> "XaaNoScreenToScreenCopy", "XaaNoPixmapCache" and
> "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps".

Any of the three options fix the problem.  XaaNoScreenToScreenCopy
causes tremendous performance problems.  The other two do not have
immediately apparent performance impacts.  

-jwb
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