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

[Patrick Matthäi]

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severity #550637 normal
thanks

Alex Deucher schrieb:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org> wrote:
> Julien Cristau schrieb:
>>>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 20:05:04 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.

Okay now I tested it on my amd64 sid workstation, which has got a x1650
pro, also KDE4, but here it works fine.

So it seems to be realy a radeon issue, but I am downgrading to normal.
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