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Bug#218169: "CGA snow" effect on Radeon 7500 at 24bpp



Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4
Tags: experimental
Architecture: i386

After upgrading X from 4.2 to current 4.3 packages from XSF, I've got the 
following problem on several of workstations here.

If X is started on 1280x1024 24bpp, there is well-visible and really 
annoying "CGA snow" effect when some object moves over the screen.
(That means, to the right of the moving object there are lots of flickering 
white dots and short horizontal lines).

Option "XaaNoScreenToScreenCopy" takes the effect away, but desktop becomes 
unacceptably slow.
Other options (both Xaa-related and DRI-related) seem not to change the 
effect.

This effect disappears if X is started an lower bpp (16bpp).

This happens with video card that lspci detects as "ATI Technologies Inc 
Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]".
XF86Config and XFree86 log files are attached.

In the past, I've noticed the same effect of a computer with S3 card, but I 
thought that it could be hardware problem. In this case, it is definitly 
driver problem, because earlier versions of X (e.g. 4.2) worked correctly.

Attachment: XF86Config-4.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data

Attachment: XFree86.1.log.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data


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