Xorg 7.0 RC0 on powerbook yields garbled text

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/4/05, Greg Roth <roth at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > This is due to r300, adding the following option in you card device
> > section should fix what you see :
> > Option      "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect"
> > Option      "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
> >
> 
> Ah yes. That seems to have sorted it. Thanks.
> 
> > Maybe some check on ppc could be added ? There is still no
> > fix or know way to ask for endianness conversion on r300 ?
> >
> >
> >>Another issue related to glxgears. I could start the program up, but
> >>subsequently trying to move the window crashes X and brings me to an xdm
> >>login.
> >
> >
> > Do you use the r300 dri driver ?
> >
> 
> No I'm using the radeon. I see the r300 in the source tree, but it
> doesn't seem to be installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers with all
> the others.
> 

the r300 dri driver is the 3d driver for r3/4xx hardware.  All radeon
hardware is handled by the radeon driver for 2d and modes.

Alex

> I also realize I didn't make it clear that I'm running GNU/Linux on my
> powerbook.
> 
> Greg