Bug#516014: xorg: also seeing this problem in latest from sid

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Penny Leach wrote:
> 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 I upgraded to sid today from an older sid (a month or so out of date, I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 moved some stuff around, you should dig in
http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/ depending on which
xserver-xorg-core you have installed

Brice