"Marc N. McGarry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I've noticed an issue with the G400 dualhead card that isn't directly
> related to the replied-to message, but I thought I'd send a message out
> to see what the general consensus as to what the problem/cause/solution
> might be.
>
> I have an AGP G400 that I'm running in a quadhead system (and just let me
> thank the XFree86 guys right now. I _love_ this setup) as the rightmost
> two screens. I've noticed that if I have an xterm open on the left-most
> G400 display using XRender'ed fonts, and I use `ls` in a large directory
> that causes the xterm window to flood, sometimes (too infrequently to
> bother me) the right-most G400 display also randomly throw up some of the
> XRender'ed text (a single line every once in a while). I assume this
> just has to do with how the G400 driver shares its video buffers among
> its two displays and with how the XRender system works (bear in mind I
> have zero hardware coding experience, so I can only guess at what's
> causing this problem).
[...]
This is one of several "well known" bugs with RENDER acceleration and the
matrox drivers. Most likely, the RENDER acceleration for matrox should
just be disabled until someone finds the time to fix it.
Regards,
Owen
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