<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michel Dänzer</b> <<a href="mailto:michel@daenzer.net">michel@daenzer.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 23:36 +0200, Tommaso Massimi wrote:<br>> Hi all<br>> up to some days ago I was an happy Xorg (6.8.2) user<br>> with Mandriva installed on my laptop.<br>><br>> On September 1 I made an alignment to the latest cooker release,
<br>> i.e. I Installed XOrg X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.99.900,<br>> and my laptop began about unusable.<br>><br>> Reinstalling Xorg 6.8.2 all the problems went away,<br>> so I'm writing this mail to inform you on what is happening
<br>> on my laptop.<br>><br>> Problem 1), already mailed here<br>> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008312.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008312.html</a>
<br><br>[...]<br><br>> Problem 2), already mailed here<br>> <a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/scottish/2004-July/001952.html">http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/scottish/2004-July/001952.html</a><br><br>
[...]<br><br>> Problem 3), maybe the wrongest one:<br>> the menu items (and some other writed lines) were painted on the screen and<br>> deleted after a few milliseconds;<br>> this happens both on KDE and icewm.
<br>><br>> By enabling this KDE setting I can have a readable menu:<br>> application "kcontrol",<br>> "look and feel"-> "fonts", check "Use antialias for font",<br>> click on button "configure", then enable "Use sub-pixel hinting".
<br><br>Does either of the following (or any combination thereof) make any<br>difference for any of these problems?<br><br> * Depth 24 instead of 16<br> * Option "RenderAccel" "off"<br> * Option "ColorTiling" "off"
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Here the results of some quick test:<br>
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<pre>test 1: Depth 24: no differences on problems 1,2,3<br><br>test 2: Depth 24 + renderAccel off: no differences on problems 1,2, <br>but menu items are always invisible,<br>my workaround with KDE setting is not more useful.
<br><br>test 3: depth 24 + colortiling off-> no differences on 1,2,3<br></pre> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Please let me know if I can help in some way or if I should file<br>> some bugs in <a href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/">http://bugs.freedesktop.org/</a><br><br>That would indeed usually be the expected way to report problems.
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Ok, tomorrow I'll do all the tests you required and then I'll file 3 <br>
different defects in <a href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/">http://bugs.freedesktop.org/</a><br>
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Thanks for the attention<br>
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Tom<br>
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