I've finally gotten back to trying to understand why my video under certain circumstances is out of sync.
My cursor is most of the time a box that looks like an out of sync image, or when you render a bitmap and you have the scanline size wrong. It sometimes looks correct when you hover over a gnome title bar for example. The issue occurs whenever I run an app that is not a "gnome" app. That's the best way I can describe the scenario. For example if I run a "gnome-terminal" for example everything seems fine, the text is rendered correctly. However if I run an xterm, the text does not render correctly, i.e. the rendered character bitmaps render "out of sync". The title bar and the window decorations are fine. I am also speculating that any application that does not somehow use the loaded "intel_drv" module, results in the video being out of sync. I see this with the token movie player for example, or the flash plugin in firefox. Is it possible that some applications do not use the loaded "intel_drv" driver ? Is there any way I can get the OS to use the "intel_drv" so that when I run "prtconf -D" I see "intel_drv" instead of "vgatext" ? I did get "i915" to attach to the display but with that driver I could not get Xorg to come up without crashing the system. This probably sounds like I don't have a clue as to what I'm talking about, and for the most part that's true, I only have a faint understanding of drivers and how Xorg gets the modules it needs loaded. It's also not clear to me why "gnome apps" behave well and other apps don't. I want to say it is because they do not link the same libraries and therefore result in using different video drivers. Anyway, if anyone can shed some light on my issues I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks -rick -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xwin-discuss mailing list [email protected] List info: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/xwin-discuss Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/options/xwin-discuss
