Ati Radeon 7200 3D feature is buggy (kernel 2.6.34-rc6, ATI driver 6.13)

[Uwe Bugla]

Hi,

I am working with an ATI Radeon 7200 QD (R100) on a Pentium 4 machine
with Intel AGP chipset.
The card driver is 6.13 (latest snapshot from April 30).

To savely exclude other side effects I did the following:
Recompile mesa library 7.9 devel and libdrm 2.4.20 from snapshot of
April 30.
 
What is the symptom?
Via config manager of Gnome 2.30 I make metacity a composite manager for
a reduced
amount of 3D effects.
What happens with the ATI driver (NOT with the self-built nouveau driver
running
with my Nvidia cards - this one works fantastic!) is the following:

If I go to the Linux Kernel archives via iceweasel 3.59 and push the
right mouse
button over some "View Patch" entry I get a window throwing shadows, as
intended.

BUT: The window does not contain any text!
I wonder if the 6.13 driver can deal with the fact that the card only
has 32 MB RAM.
But this is wild guessing, as I do not have any idea.
Maybe this hint / symptom is helpful for the developers.

When publishing driver 6.13 you were promising a driver being able of 3D
and 2D
effects plus KMS.
Except the 3D effects everything is working fine.
When will you finally fulfil that promise?

Looking forward to a fully functional driver...

Cheers

Uwe

P. S.: I don't know if that matters at all:
The xserver version is 1.7.6.901 (= 1.7.7 rc1).