Comment 3 for bug 718339

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l8gravely (john-stoffel) wrote : [Bug 718339] Re: resizing xterm larger causes corruption onscreen and in terminal

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Gilbert <email address hidden> writes:

Dave> This seems mostly OK for me on both of my machines (one Intel
Dave> 945GM, and the other is Radeon HD4350 with open drivers).

My system is running a Radeon X1650 (RV530) fanless. I'm running
compiz as the window manager, I'll drop that and change back to
metacity as a test.

Dave> On the Intel one, there is a small band of pixel droppings
Dave> around the left and bottom of the window that is a bit odd; but
Dave> the contents are fine. (Radeon setup is Kubuntu, Intel is
Dave> classic Gnome with compiz).

If I resize larger, say both right and down, then there is corruption on
the right and left sides.

Dave> l8gravely: Can you say what graphics hardware you've got,
Dave> whether you're using compiz or metacity and anything else about
Dave> the graphics setup you'd think might be interesting.

I'm running the regular radeon kernel driver, not the AMD/ATI Catalyst
one. It's certainly possible that I've got something messed up in my
setup. I'll double check my setup, since at one time I was playing
with the xorg-edgers stuff, but it was so unstable that I dropped out
of it.

  > dpkg-query -l | grep radeon
  ii libdrm-radeon1 2.4.23-1ubuntu Userspace interface to radeon-specific kerne
  ii radeontool 1.6.1-1 utility to control ATI Radeon backlight func
  ii xserver-xorg-v 1:6.13.2+git20 X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display dri

Another thing I notice, is that when I do resize an xterm, the popup
telling you how many columns/rows the terminal has doesn't show up any
more.

Do people want me to send any screen shots?

Thanks,
John