[Openchrome-users] screen improperly refreshed when using openchrome driver on Amilo L7300

[Dominique Poirier]

Hello,

I have just installed Linux Debian 5.0 (Lenny) on an old laptop :

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L7300, 512 Mo RAM (including 64 Mo video), Hard 
drive 40 Go (14 for linux), Celeron 1.5 Ghz, Graphic chipset VIA PN800.

The default graphic driver is "openchrome" for this chipset. But the 
background of the screen is not properly refreshed. Sometimes, the icon
disappear or there are remaining traces after moving a window.

The problem has already been detected. See the following pages :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/linux/+bug/259389
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=248822 (This page is in 
French, but there is a snapshot of screen which shows the problem.)

This problem is not precisely reproducible. It occurs with KDE, GNOME, 
LXDE, gdm, kdm...
But It disappears when using "via" as device driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

I have downloaded, compiled and installed the last version (903) of 
'openchrome" . But this did not solve the problem. Note that I had to 
install
x11proto-gl-dev, otherwise the flle glxint.h is not found during 
compilation.

Will this problem be fixed in a new version of "openchrome" ? Is there 
any workaround or configuration (in xorg.conf) to do ?

Thank you very much for any information.