Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:30:23 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey Message-ID: <52CDA74F.5060403@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <52CAD9CA.1020304@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <52CAD9CA.1020304@rainbow-runner.nl>
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On 01/06/14 17:28, Koop Mast wrote: Hello. > So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for > people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. I've got a 9.1/i386 box, running WITH_NEW_XORG. My graphics card is: > vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x030000 card=0x17041565 chip=0x97101002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' > device = 'RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]' > class = display > subclass = VGA Since a long time, I've been experiencing really annoying refresh problems: sometimes, when I scroll a window, part of it will be updated, part won't (so the lines I see are not those I'm working on). This happens frequently with OpenOffice, often with Emacs (both running locally or remotely through ssh) and sometimes with Okular; strangely I never saw this with ThunderBird or Firefox. I upgraded cairo to 1.12 a couple of days ago, hoping it would help, but I see no difference: the refresh problems are not gone; OTOH, I see no strange artifacts. > While this CFT is focused on the non-WITH_NEW_XORG that should not stop > people that are using WITH_NEW_XORG from trying it out. If you need, I can try to go back to without NEW_XORG and test again. (I upgraded in the first place for the same reason above, but saw no improvement, only some more minor troubles). > The Intel/Radeon KMS drivers shouldn't have any problem with cairo 1.12. Sorry, I'll wait until console switching work, before upgrading to 10 :) I could also confirm what Warren said: Firefox used to render blocks of text badly sometimes (usually fixed by scrolling up or down and back); this has never happend after the Cairo update (though two days are not a long time). bye & Thanks for your work av.
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