gnome-terminal corruption still present with latest drivers

John Levon levon at movementarian.org
Thu Jan 17 08:25:02 PST 2008


On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:51:23AM +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? :)

No, because that makes glxgears hang the machine.

regards
john


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