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Re: i830 dri/xv/hw cursor problems



On 03.03.2004   06:28 Alexander Barinov wrote:
Hi!

I have some very unlucky i830 chip which doesn't work well even with
reasonably modern drivers. The problem is that when i try to use more
than "VideoRam 8060" memory (and that's needed to use xvideo/hw
cursor/dri) all the three parts fail:
 - i see some random garbage instead of hw cursor
 - i get blue rectangle instead of xvideo output
 - dri is not working (on 4.3.0-2 it uses software rendering, on
   4.3.0-0pre1v4 it used to crash xfree)
 - even 'x11perf -all' displays some garbage on 4.3.0-2 (on
   4.3.0-0pre1v4 it used to crash xfree)
All the releases before 4.3.0-2 used to crash very often, since i
installed 4.3.0-2 it crashes seldom (once in 10-20 minutes) but now i
see much more garbage.


Hi.

first, there's a known bug in 4.3.0-2, that prevents DRI from working on i386 based hardware.
So try to upgrade to 4.3.0-3.

If this still doesn't work as desired for you, you could upgrade to xserver-xfee86 found at http://rphlx1.uni-r.de .

This contains some fixes to the i830 part of the i810 driver grabbed from upstream - mainly to fix a segfault on i865g based hardware.
It _maybe_ could fix your problems as well...

hth.
 - Christian



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