Artifacts on Radeon 4850

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Matt Turner<mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Casey Jones<jonescaseyb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would using the radeon-rewrite branch of mesa actually fix this?  AFAIK,
>> this isn't a 3D/OpenGL problem.  Whenever Xorg is running it happens,
>> including 2D.
>
> No, the radeon-rewrite branch (which has been merged recently)
> wouldn't change anything, as it doesn't support R6/700. If it's
> happening with 2D, it's not a problem with Mesa anyway -- unless
> you're using compiz, then it may be.
>
>> Oh, and I am using EXA. Are there any other AccelMethods like XAA?
>> And it isn't the hardware because it worked fine with fglrx.
>
> Yes, XAA is also available.

Only EXA is available on r6xx/r7xx hardware.

Alex