Radeon Mobility X1600 texture garbage w/ compiz skydome

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 14:35 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 13:35 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > ( this is a resend to xorg-driver-ati. this message got posted to xorg
> > as I was not aware this list exists as it is not listed on
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ )
> 
> lists.x.org != lists.freedesktop.org :)

Ahh, great mixup :-]
> 
> > I am on debian-experimental (xorg 1.5, mesa 7.1, xserver-xorg-video-ati
> > 6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a-2 ) and running compiz 0.7.6. While things
> > work mostly OK, the skydome displays random garbage and the bottom and
> > top texture of the cube/cylinder displays more or less the texture
> > distorted (some lines are ok, some not) + random garbage inbetween.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > (**) RADEON(0): Option "GARTSize" "64"
> > (**) RADEON(0): Option "FBTexPercent" "0"
> 
> Try without these two options.
> 
> For the former, values larger than 32 (which is also the default now)
> aren't handled correctly automatically for PCIe cards.
> 
> For the latter, the Mesa r300 driver doesn't properly handle GART
> texturing, so it needs to have texture space in video RAM.

Indeed, when removing these two options both compiz and ut2004demo run
nicely. On the hunt for further problems, I've discovered that 
pdfcube ( http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube/  )
is somehow not in the very front and flickering like hell...

Otherwise I am surprised how well everything works!!

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!!
Soeren