On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 06:22, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > 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.
One possible cause is that the hardware clipping functions are broken. They either need to be fixed to preserve the DP_GUI_MASTER_CNTL register contents or not be used. -- 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
