[Openchrome-users] via k8m890 very slow with vesa

[bob davis]

Jon Nettleton wrote:
> Bob
> 
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 21:02 -0500, bob davis wrote:
>> I have the following hardware:
>> via k8m890ce
>> averatec av4145-eh1
>> lshw reports:
>>      product: 2200 Series
>>      vendor: Averatec
>>
>> Software:
>> ubuntu edgy 6.10
>> xorg 7.1.1
>> vesa 1.2.0
>>
>> What I have already done:
>> 1. I have been to openchrome.org and compiled and installed the branch 
>> vt3336_branch.
>> The driver comes up and is reasonably fast but it leaves missdraws all 
>> over the screen. (call them birdies?)
> 
> If you have time I would love to debug this problem with you.  I am the
> developer that started work on support for this chipset.  Unfortunately
> my tester is too busy to work with me, so the branch has been stagnant.
> 
> The first thing to check with this driver is to set this for the device.
> 
> Option "HWCursor" false
> 
> This might help with the graphical corruption.
> 
>

Hi Jon

I would love to get this driver to work. I am a pretty good C++ 
programmer. I mostly program on win32 so I am a little rusty with 
debuggers etc. on linux. I think the last debugger I used on unix was 
adb on aix.

I added the
Option "HWCursor" "false"
to my xorg.conf and it didnt seem to make any difference.

The problems I am getting:
1. As I type this msg into thunderbird when I enter a new line the line 
I just entered disappears when the screen scrolls one line. It then 
reappears after I type some characters on the new line.
2. In gnome terminal a half line worth of image is missing at the top of 
the text window.
3. If I scroll firefox a line at a time various lines get messed up. If 
I scroll it a screen at a time the screen is cleared up.
4. When I shutdown X the computer locks up and I have to power off to 
recover.

bob
bob