Radeon 9000 Pro corruption problem on PPC when DRI is enabled

Ari Entlich lmage11 at twcny.rr.com
Tue Aug 22 23:24:40 PDT 2006


> Awesome!!! This fixed both the DRI corruption and UseFBDev problems!
> Well, that patch as you sent it didn't fix it (keep reading), but the
> problem has definitely been identified! The check you used to test for
> an x86 BIOS doesn't work, however (I commented out the condition to
> test
> it :), so that will have to be fixed. I've tested BZFlag and Chromium,
> and they both work great! :) However, Composite doesn't work as well
> as
> I'd hoped (see
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg_X11_and_Transparency#ATi_.2B_Xorg ).
> Composite was one of the main reasons I switched to Xorg 7.1 (another
> reason was staying up-to-date, of course), so I'd be a bit
> disappointing
> if I can't get it running at any better than non-accelerated speeds
> (which is what I'm getting) :-/. Is this a known issue...? I looked it
> up on the 'net, it seems other people are getting slow composite on
> Radeon 9000 cards too...

Oh, and you can find my real config file at
http://home.twcny.rr.com/fandaswebsite/xorg.conf.real and my log file
with everything working at
http://home.twcny.rr.com/fandaswebsite/xorg_log_awesome .

Thanks,
 Ari




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