Re: iBook G4: screen garbled in Gnome after today's upgrade
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 18:10 +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
>
> I have some problems with my iBook G4 (ATi 9200).
> Today I updated my Sid after some time and I installed as much of Gnome
> 2.12 I could and upgraded completely X.org to 6.9.
> The result is that the desktop keeps reloading itself like this:
>
> http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/7052/image0445jz.jpg
>
> The applications called from the panel work good (look at the terminal for
> example), as do actually the icons on the desktop.
>
> I wouldn't file a bug until Gnome 2.12 is completely in Sid-PPC, but I
> suspect this behaviour to be nautilus-related.
> Any comments? Thank you and sorry for the poor picture :)
This sounds like a known bug in xserver-xorg's XAA, you can work around
it with Option "AccelMethod" "EXA".
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