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In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:17 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts |
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>> contents of some scrolling text windows. It looks like this: |
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>> http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png |
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> wow, never seen that and I've used most versions of ati-drivers up to |
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> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1 |
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The only program it reliably happens with is aterm. Other |
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terminal programs don't seem to trigger the bug. I suspect |
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that rxvt will also trigger it since they share a lot of code. |
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I'm not sure when it started to happen. I think it worked OK |
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back in the 8.2x series, but you can't run those drivers with |
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newer kernels and new versions of xorg. |
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> maybe provide your card specs? |
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It's an IBM Thinkpad with an M22 X300 chipset w/ 64MB of |
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RAM. I can look up the chipset rev tomorrow. |
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>> The Xorg "radeon" driver doesn't have this problem, but DRI |
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>> support in that driver doesn't work for some of the programs I |
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>> run. |
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> unfortunately, neither the xorg radeon driver nor the ati radeon driver |
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> give me very good performance... on a RV350 "Mobility Radeon 9600 M10". |
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Yea, I've noticed that. The radeon driver DRI support only |
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works for some programs and at about a 20% reduced frame rate. |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! Oh, I get it!! "The |
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at BEACH goes on", huh, |
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visi.com SONNY?? |
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