Re: [Xpert]i815 drawing glitches and broken xvideo

2002-12-03 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Leif Jensen wrote: I have long had some problems with xf86 on my Acer Travelmate 610 with an i815em chipset. I installed xf86 compiled from cvs from 2002-11-26 in hope of resolving the problems, but there are still some issues. The two problems I experience are

Re: [Xpert]i815 drawing glitches and broken xvideo

2002-12-03 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Leif Jensen wrote: Graphics glitches refers to blocks in widget backgrounds or window decorations that are rendered in the wrong color or with portions copied from other parts of the display. Also meant to mention, there's a few workarounds in the archives as well. I

RE: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-27 Thread Bill Soudan
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Neale Banks wrote: Ah, that's interesting. A few of us have been plagued by a crash which happens with i810 when running two servers - and goes away when XaaNoSolidFillRect is set on. Ah, according to the README file in the driver directory: 7. Known Limitations -

RE: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-27 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: No, blits from the Framebuffer to the Framebuffer would be correct. Blits from the pixmap cache to the framebuffer that are only 1 line would also be correct. I've posted a few example pics of the corruption I see:

RE: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-27 Thread Bill Soudan
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Egbert Eich wrote: Now the problem: The i810 blit engine seems to be broken in that it cannot copy a portion of the framebuffer right to the right of itself if the width of this area is in a certain range. Even if the source destination regions don't overlap? That

[Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-25 Thread Bill Soudan
Hi all, I'd like to spend some time hunting around the source for the i810/KDE3 corruption bug, I've suffered with it for over a year now. There have been a number of past email exchanges on the topic, here's the best by Dirk Stöffler:

Re: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-25 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Bill Soudan wrote: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-June/018208.html Why changing the resolution to 24bpp 'solves' the problem: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/i810_accel.c: /* There is a bit blt bug in 24 bpp. This is a problem

RE: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-25 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: I don't think there are any issues with the blit engine at 16 bit. Is there an i810 blitter bug at 24bpp? (and that's what the author of the code was referring to?) I think the problem has something to do with the way multi-line pixmap cache's

RE: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-25 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jeff Hartmann wrote: This is just a hunch but I'm wondering if this could be a previously undetected problem in the XFree86 memory manager. I want you people who can reproduce the problem to try the above patch and tell me if it works. I unfortunately no longer

RE: [Xpert]KDE3/i810 corruption - source pointers?

2002-09-25 Thread Bill Soudan
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: But if your theory is correct, and the source pitch was wildly incorrect, wouldn't nearly all blits be corrupted? No, blits from the Framebuffer to the Framebuffer would be correct. Blits from the pixmap cache to the framebuffer that are only