Bug#613918: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: display corruption with DefaultDepth 16

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fre, 2011-02-18 at 12:27 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: 
> 
> Arno Schuring <aelschuring at hotmail.com> (18/02/2011):
> > Problems disappeared when I changed "DefaultDepth 16" to 24.
> 
> AFAICT from reading xorg-devel, you shouldn't be using depth 16, it's
> broken in various ways, and kind of unsupported. (Tagging accordingly.)

If you mean the discussion about non-TrueColor visuals being broken, no,
that doesn't affect depth 16 any more than depth 24.


I followed up on the upstream report, I suspect this is the xserver EXA
bug causing problems with tiling.


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