Radeon 9000 Pro corruption problem on PPC when DRI is enabled

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 02:48 -0400, Ari Entlich wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 02:44 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> > Ari Entlich wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am writing to ask about a video corruption problem I've been trying to
> > > sort out. The problem arose after I upgraded to X.Org 7.1 from X.Org
> > > 6.8.2, which didn't have this problem. It only arises when DRI is
> > > enabled - changing anything to make DRI not start produces correct
> > > output. I used gentoo's ppc Xorg autoconfig utility (Xorgautoconfig) to
> > > generate my configuration, which can be found at
> > > http://home.twcny.rr.com/fandaswebsite/xorg.conf.

Does it also happen without page flipping?


> > You might try to get rid of that (imho ugly and utterly useless - well 
> > the idea is sound the implementation is not because way too limited) 
> > UseFBDev option, [...]

Now, now. Some things still don't work right without it on PowerMacs,
e.g. changing modes clobbers the TFT backlight level, so I guess you
could say the same thing about not using UseFBDev. :)


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