Re: X 'loses text' after sleep
On Die, 2002-04-02 at 03:54, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:26:56PM +0100, mallum wrote:
> >
> > Im running X4.2 ( built from source ) with debian unstable on a tibook
> > 550 with radeon drivers. The kernel is 2.4.19pre4-ben0 .
> >
> > When I sleep and then wake up the machine in X, terms and various
> > other apps now either lose characters or the text becomes
> > distorted. No other graphical elements seem to be affected only text.
> >
> > Anyone else experienced this, have a fix ?
>
> I have seen something similar in console apps. I don't have a radeon,
> though. I've noticed it particularly since switching to the 2.4 kernel.
>
> When editing in emacs, if I kill the last half of the line, or use
> Ctrl-Q to re-wrap, a 'shadow' of the letters that were there remains
> at the end of the paragraph. I see a similar effect on the command
> line, so I guess readline would be the common denominator.
I doubt it has anything to do with these problems, which are completely
different AFAICS. What you experience in console is probably acceleration
code bugs in aty{,128}fb, while the Radeon suspend problem is a weird
hardware state, possibly caused by not yet 100% correct power management
code in radeonfb.
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