Bug#516014: xorg: also seeing this problem in latest from sid
Hola Penny Leach!
El 03/08/2009 a las 15:56 escribiste:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.4+3
> Severity: normal
>
> I upgraded to sid today from an older sid (a month or so out of date, I
> guess), and I seem to have the same problem. As well as the symptoms
> originally described, I see a very much exacerbated problem for anything
> that involves rendering new lines. Eg running top, or writing in vim and
> hitting the end of the line. Switching the cursor between awesome tiles
> seems to trigger each one to redraw, which causes the line rendering
> problem.
>
> I randomly tried downgrading a few packages, xorg, xserver-xorg and
> awesome, none of which fixed the problem. I tried setting Option "AGPMode"
> "1" , as well as 2 and 8. I think 8 is slightly better but the problem
> certainly doesn't go away altogether.
>
> The link to
> ttp://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/ati-6.11.0-Xserver1.4/
>
> didn't work for me (404).
>
> I also tried with and without an external monitor, didn't seem to make any
> difference. I originally thought it was specifically an urxvt problem, but
> I see the problem in, eg, iceweasel as well.
>
> attached is xorg conf & log.
The previous bug was found in an ati radeon, your logs show an i830 video
card. I suspect the migration to UXA to be causing problems in your case, can
you please try to adding:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
in the Device section?
Thanks,
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