Resize problems with savage and DRI.

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:39:32 +0200, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:52:26 +0100
> Dan Gray <dan at dangray.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >   I'm using the savage CVS code and am having problems with resizing the
> > screen.
> >
> >   Both the standard Crtl-Alt-+ and SDL apps fail to rescale the display
> > properly, with the C-A-+ option leaving corruption at the top and bottom
> > of the screen (clears with I switch back to default 1024x768) and SDL
> > (try Neverball or Tuxracer for an example) fails to resize the screen to
> > lower resolutions, resulting in a strange, corrupt
> > half-display-sort-of-thing.
> >
> >   Also, Xv seems to be glitching, generating vertical lines up and down
> > the screen on high resolution video.
> 
> FWIW, I see the same behaviour on my ProSavageDDR. I think Alex (who is
> working on the 2D driver) is aware of the Xv problems. Resizing
> (Ctrl+Alt+'+'/'-') works ok here on a Savage4 but is broken with the
> ProSavage DDR. Alex, are you aware of that problem? Can you reproduce it
> on any of your hardware?

Yeah I'm aware of the problems. they are all tied into streams which
I'm working on.  I should have a fix in the not too distant future.
Sorry for the delay.

> 
> >
> >   I've tried various combinations of xorg.conf file, does anyone have
> > any  suggestions? Is this a bug?
> 

yeah it's a bug.

> Probably.
> 
> >
> >   BTW, i've been hosting binaries of the savage drivers for some time
> > (see http://www.dangray.org/index.php?id=69) is there any information
> > that you guys think I should be providing? I'm getting 4-5 downloads a
> > day, so they're obviously being used somewhat.
> 
> You could add a link to
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download and maybe
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building. ;-) These binary
> snapshots for savage have been there for a while too.
> 
> >
> >    Thanks
> >     Dan Gray
> 
> Regards,
>   Felix

Alex

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