From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 18:15:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D7B106566C for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:15:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D54C8FC1D for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p85Hg955008352; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:42:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id p85Hg9tM008349; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:42:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:42:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Adam K Kirchhoff In-Reply-To: <201109051251.58076.akirchhoff135014@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <201109051251.58076.akirchhoff135014@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:42:09 -0600 (MDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter devel-20110704-exp at wonkity.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with the radeon driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:15:35 -0000 On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Has anyone else seen this type of artefacting with the radeon driver: > > http://adam.visualtech.com/radeon-corruption.jpg > > I get it on two different machines, one with an HD4850 and one with an HD4350. > I've put up with it for over a year now, but it's really started to get on my > nerves. > > I've done some testing and it seems to have been introduced in 6.13.0. If I > go back to 6.12.7, everything is fine. I'm using X server 1.7.7 from ports, > with EXA acceleration. This happens without a compositor running > (kwin/compiz/xcompmgr). In the screenshot, it's just plain openbox. You can > see three windows (Terminal, akregator, chrome) as one big giant mess. This > happens mostly when moving/resizing windows, but also with scrolling. When experimenting with other wm lately, I saw that type of thing, but only with openbox. > Running 'xrefresh' will clear the screen and redraw everything properly. But > then I move a window, and it happens again. Sometimes it's worse than others. > In the screenshot, it's particularly bad. Maybe openbox can be patched to force refreshes. But the other wms I tried didn't seem to have the problem.