On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > All these issues show up when an attempt is made to initialise the adapter > > more than once between resets (i.e. reboots).
> Yes. I have noticed that the first invocation of the server after a > reboot (at least starts out) is clean. But it seems to degrade. Using > the 20030122 snapshot, I have a mostly clear screen, but it gets the > corruption artifacts when certain "pixmap" operations are performed. > For instance, Galeon 1.3.1 frequently shows the corruption in it's > windows while other parts of the screen are not corrupt. If I scroll > the galeon HTML widget the corruption follows the scroll and if I > scroll back, it comes back clean. > At various other times every window on the screen including the root > window will show the corruption, but often I can just move a window > around the screen and "wipe" the corruption away. If performance degrades during a single server invocation, that's a separate problem than what we're discussing here. > > The original patch submission for this #ifdef'ed itself for Alpha's. But > > the truth is that these are adapter issues. That they show up more on > > certain architectures than others is irrelevent. > So can we have the code that is #ifdef'd for Alphas not #ifdefe'd > before the next snapshot then? Let's see if it improves the problems > on Intel platforms too. You need better glasses. This code isn't currently #ifdef'ed for Alpha. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86