On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 05:10, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: 
> 
> I've always had occaisonal problems with refreshes not properly taking place,
> but since I've installed XFree86 4.2, it has gotten much worse.
> 
> If I invoke "xv", for example, on multiple pictures, then when I go to the 
> next picture it will very frequntly fail to properly refresh the picture.  
> For example, if the first picture is 200x200 and the second is 400x200, then 
> it will typically be the case that once I hit the spacebar, I see the 
> original picture on the left half of the xv window and the right half of the 
> new picture on the right half.
> 
> The other program where I notice this frequently is vncviewer.  It has always 
> had some noticable refresh problems, but they seem to be markedly worse now.
> 
> With xv, I can work around it, usually, by quickly paging through all the 
> pictures and then back to the beginning but this hardly constitutes a fix.
> 
> And *sometimes* it won't happen if the machine is completely idle and I don't 
> try to flip through the pictures too quickly.  Generally, the busier the 
> machine is, the worse the problem is.

I assume Option "NoAccel" fixes the refresh problems? If so, try playing
with the "XaaNo..." options described in the XF86Config-4 manpage to
isolate an offending acceleration function. I'd guess the ones related
to Pixmaps would be a good start.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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