Bug#461153: xserver-xorg-video-ati: rotation corrupts screen

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 23:26 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.7.198~git20080109.10e7636c-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi again ...
> 
> when I rotate display using
> xrandr -o 1
> or
> xrandr --output DVI-0 --rotation left
> the display is corrupted. I can see some parts of the windows rotated,
> some part non-rotated, and some garbage everywhere.
> I'm using compiz.

Then it can't work until xserver 1.5 due to previously missing AIGLX
damage reporting.


> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]

Note that even without a GLX compositing manager, support for
accelerated rotation with R300 generation cards was only just pushed to
the upstream Git repository. Also, AFAIK it's only working correctly
with EXA at this point.


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