Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:22:51 +0000 From: "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org> To: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pixel corruption in wide xterms Message-ID: <a01628140711150922l2c683a18xcc11b71503bdf85@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071115121149.674e5b7a@linwhf.opal.com> References: <20071115121149.674e5b7a@linwhf.opal.com>
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On 15/11/2007, J.R. Oldroyd <fbsd@opal.com> wrote: > Since being advised a couple of weeks ago on this list to switch from > the xf86-video-i810 driver to the xf86-video-intel driver, I am seeing > pixel corruption in xterm windows. > > The pixel corruption consists of collections of lit pixels where there > are no characters and, occasionally, also unlit pixels where there are > characters. These corrupted areas scroll with the xterm. The > corruption happens only on wide xterms, seemingly when columns >= 158, > which is often the case for me as I use a 1600x1200 display and an xterm > font size that can fit up to 175 columns in a maximized xterm window. > It also seems to happen only at the left of the screen. > > An example of the corruption can be seen here: > http://opal.com/jr/xterm-corruption.gif > I have marked the corruption using red ovals. There are many red ovals! > (NB: download and view this at full size to avoid further distortion due > to your browser shrinking the image.) > > Is there a known solution for this? > > FreeBSD-7.0BETA1.5 > xorg-7.3_1 > xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 > xterm-229 It's probably not FreeBSD-specific. Could you check on bugs.freedesktop.org to see if you find a report for this already and open one if there's none? -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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