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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #269357
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 269357

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Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard) wrote : Re: Video playback failes with compiz enabled

An update on enabling EXA-acceleration in xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2:
There are small corruption issues, and so it is right to still default to XAA.

The issues are not big, however:
* If I use a bitmap-font in Gnome-terminal (yes, "Fixed 6x13" is my favorite of all times), there is annoying glyph-corruption. This never happens with fonts that are anti-aliased, so workaround is to not use bitmapped fonts in Gnome-terminal.

* There is occasional small corruptions around check-box-widgets in web page forms when scrolling the page in Firefox. I've only seen this on pages with a large number of these boxes, like a typical GMail inbox.

* Very rarely, there is slight corruption below the mouse cursor, but only for certain applications. I've seen it in Emacs and when running a remote Firefox using X-forwarding (on RHEL5).

I plan to post proper bug-reports of these issues when I get around to it. And of course, if anyone knows about work-arounds for these issues, please do tell !

Also worth mentioning that I have tried the latest GIT-snapshot of the radeon-driver, and it works fine, but none of the issues above are fixed.