gnome-terminal corruption still present with latest drivers

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Thu Jan 17 00:51:23 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:21 +0000, John Levon wrote: 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:03:44AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > > I have a Radeon 9200 SE and this problem:
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427331
> > > 
> > > I'm now using git master head (to get video out - which works great - thanks!)
> > > on Fedora 8, but I still see the problem. Currently I work around it by using
> > > EXA instead of XAA, which seems to help.
> > 
> > What about XAA with Option "RenderAccel" "off"?
> 
> Seems to help as well.

So it seems to be a bug either in XAA or in the radeon driver's XAA
RENDER acceleration code, though more likely the latter, as all the
reports seem to be from radeon users.

Using EXA isn't an acceptable solution? :)


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