On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:50:30AM +0100, Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski scrawled: > There are some problems I get with X 4.2.99.4, prolly bugs. > > 1. My X setup is unstable when using 3D. > with 4.2.1 I could play UT for some time and then it freezed. > With 4.2.99.4 I get freezes right at the beginning of UT. > > What is freeze? > > Display freezes, game gets locked. Sys works fine (accessible remotely), > until I kill -9 X or UT.
Are you compiling with gcc3.2? If so, try 2.95, or 3.4 (NOT 3.3); MMX code generation is really badly broken. > If (with freezed screen) I tried mplayer -vo vesa, it was able to display > a movie, but freezed system when exiting. > > I can still mess around with alt-sysrq-foo things (even after freeze). > If i did alt-sysrq-k with this freeze, whole sys gets stopped (and > soundcard repeats its buffer). As it would, you're taking out init. Try Alt-SysRq-L, or S, then U, then B, to reboot. > Sometimes when I played UT, whole PCI stuff stopped (sblive, NICs) and > rest (GPU, keyb, rs232-inet) kept working for about 2-3 minutes > (and then 100% freeze). Odd. > 2. XVideo looks bad with 100% scale > When I play a movie with mplayer -vo xv, not fullscreen, image looks > like badly scaled (disorted slant lines etc). But window size is > equal to movie size. Doesn't happen with another video card and > with X 4.2.1. Unfortunately I can't take a screenshot ;). How are you scaling? Software scaling or hardware scaling? Are you trying to scale a 16:9 or such movie to 4:3? > 3. XFS breaks Type1 fonts. > With 4.2.1: http://www.filip.eu.org/xdm.jpg > With 4.2.99.4: http://www.filip.eu.org/xdmb.jpg > Note that using direct FontPath to font files in XF86Config > solves the problem (in 4.2.99.4). Try xfs-xtt. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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