Bug#550637: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: with dri enabled, the whole desktop flickers if tmw is started

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org> wrote:
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> Julien Cristau schrieb:
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 20:05:04 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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>>> I do not know when this issue appeared, because I didn't played the game since a longer time..
>>> I am using kde4, sid, i386 and amd64 and radeon dri on my mobile x1250 and sapphire x1650 pro.
>>>
>>> If I start tmw windows and have got it in the foreground, my whole display begins to flicker,
>>> not only the game window. If I start it in fullscreen it seems to be quite better, but not
>>> perfect.
>>>
>> Have you tried disabling kwin GL compositing? DRI1 with a compositing
>> manager has never been a good combination.
>
> It is permament disabled here.


Does:
Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH"
in the device section of your config help?  You need to use
xf86-video-ati git master for this option to have an affect on your
chipsets.

Alex

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