radeon 9200M troubles

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Sep 4 14:59:23 PDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 23:36 +0200, Tommaso Massimi wrote:
> Hi all
> up to some days ago I was an happy Xorg (6.8.2) user 
> with Mandriva installed on my laptop.
> 
> On September 1 I made an alignment to the latest cooker release,
> i.e. I Installed XOrg X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.99.900,
> and my laptop began about unusable.
> 
> Reinstalling Xorg 6.8.2 all the problems went away,
> so I'm writing this mail to inform you on what is happening
> on my laptop.
> 
> Problem 1), already mailed here
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008312.html
> 
> "KDE (3.4.1) failed to draw button widgets (push buttons, some popups, some 
> window decorations, etc) when running under this server. The xorg logs seemed 
> ok, no reported "unusual" errors/problems. I am not running transparency in 
> KDE."
> 
> note: I'm running KDE 3.4.2

It could be a problem with render accel. Can you post your Xorg log ?
When working on EXA, I've been having a similar result with composite
code when using MMIO accel instead of CP. I wonder how well the MMIO
version of Render accel is working...

Ben.





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