Bug#483595: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Corruption in visualization of flash game

[Brice Goglin]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:30:05AM +0200, Alessio Frusciante wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:34 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Seems to work fine here with current upstream code...
> > 
> > Does either of
> > 
> > 	Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> > 	Option "RenderAccel" "off"
> > 
> > help? It would also be interesting if you could try newer upstream
> > snapshots of xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-core available in
> > experimental.
> Ok, made a few tests.
> Using XAA and Render acceleration produces the first screenshot
> (XAA.jpg). Disabling Render acceleration makes no difference.
> Re-enabling acceleration and using EXA instead of XAA makes things
> better, but every string is now rendered as a solid rectangle (you find
> a screenshot attached, EXA.jpg). Using EXA and disabling Render
> acceleration produces the expected result.
> 
> I installed xserver-xorg-video-ati from experimental
> (6.8.1~git20080528.faea0088-1) but it made no visible difference. I
> couldn't install xserver-xorg-core from experimental because it
> (probably) requires a matching version of xserver-xorg that I couldn't
> find.

Does this bug still occur today? Can you try 6.12.5 from unstable
or 6.12.191 from experimental with KMS?

Brice