Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display
On 11 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:03, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 10 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 14:21, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> >> > After today's upgrade of a lot of xorg stuff in Sid my full-screen
> >> > display of TV is jerky, as is Googlearth.
> >> >
> >> > This is on a Thinkpad Z61M. I was using the radeonhd driver previously;
> >> > I now have the upgraded radeon driver since radeonhd was removed. I
> >> > don't know what to report a bug report for - the radeon driver or
> >> > xserver-xorg. Anyone else seeing this?
> >>
> >> I see RadeonHD in my sid repos, but if you are using radeon now
> >> I guess you might as well report it in that driver. But before you do
> >> that, have you tried some of the various tweaks? I don't know which
> >> ones are currently relevant (I am on Intel now), but there used to be
> >> lots, from specifying exa or xaa to things like nooffscreenpixmaps.
> >
> > Yes, radeonhd is back now but using it doesn't help. I tried various
> > options without improvement. I notice that DRI is enabled and I thought
> > that might be the problem, but for some reason it is impossible to turn
> > it off - Option "DRI" "false" does nothing. There are also some odd
> > keyboard effects now - I can no longer stop X with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>
> That is a change that Ubuntu convinced upstream to do, to get it back:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "DontZap" "false"
> EndSection
>
> I don't know about the rest, except that disabling dri will almost
> certainly make things slower. It sounds like a regression that
> affects both drivers... I guess file a bug against one of the drivers
> or against xserver, they can always reassign it if they need to. Or
> ask on the xorg mailing list.
>
Thanks to you and Andrei for suggestions. I have now got
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace working again. But disabling dri (and glx, also
needed) didn't help with the display on full screen.
Anthony
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