Radeon 9000 Pro corruption problem on PPC when DRI is enabled

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 01:58 -0400, Ari Entlich wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:39 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 03:12 -0400, Ari Entlich wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 02:55 -0400, Ari Entlich wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 18:34 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: 
> > > > > On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 02:24 -0400, Ari Entlich wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > and use Option "AccelDFS". If that doesn't help, you can try playing with the
> > > > > "MigrationHeuristic" and "FBTexPercent" options, and if all of that
> > > > > doesn't help, you could finally try the exa-damagetrack xserver git
> > > > > branch.
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm... The only one of those options that my system understands is
> > > > "FBTexPercent", 
> > 
> > You'll need xf86-video-ati git for AccelDFS, but MigrationHeuristic was
> > already in xorg-server 1.1. How exactly did you try it?
> 
> Oh, sorry, since MigrationHeuristic isn't documented I assumed it wasn't
> supported. I tried setting it to "always" and... Wow!!! It made a HUGE
> difference! Opacity changes are WAY faster now. However, I'm now getting
> some corruption... See
> http://home.twcny.rr.com/fandaswebsite/decoration_corruption.jpg (it's
> supposed to look like
> http://home.twcny.rr.com/fandaswebsite/decoration_ok.jpg ). 

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6811 .

> And here's some more: http://home.twcny.rr.com/fandaswebsite/more_corruption.jpg .

Not sure this is the same issue though. Is this with AccelDFS?


> > > And I'm also having the "OpenGL stuff in one window appears in front of
> > > another window even if the OpenGL window is in the background"
> > > problem...
> > 
> > That's because DRI rendering isn't redirected yet.
> 
> Hmm... Is this a driver-level issue?

Partly that, and partly infrastructure.


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