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 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
