Radeon DRIVER

[vehemens]

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 07:51:15 pm Alex wrote:
> I have some weird things going on now...
>
> Sometimes when I drag a window, a copy of the window is left behind in
> the previous position (background is not restored), refer to this
> screenshot:
>
> http://ahhyes.net/gfxweird.jpg
>
> I have mozilla firefox open. I have dragged the window down but there is
> still image data at the top where the image previously was. If I close
> the application both images are cleared and everything appears normal.
>
> Similar things happen in a terminal window as well. If i issue the
> "clear" command to clear the window contents, part of the window are
> cleared but there are still characters here and there from the previous
> screen content.
>
> Any ideas?

I think xorg-server 1.5.3 is a bit broken.  You might want to give xorg-server 
1.6.0 a try.

> Alex wrote:
> > IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
> >
> > Thanks to everyone that helped!
> >
> > Alex wrote:
> >> Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> >>> Alex wrote:
> >>>> Have all the above already. Build is broken.
> >>>
> >>> After just getting DRI working on my RV620, I might suggest using
> >>> the x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel port instead.  Seems to
> >>> work well here, and builds without a hitch of course. :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Aragon
> >>
> >> Thank you! That gave me a vital clue. I looked at the Makefile for
> >> that port as I could see that the configure script for the port was
> >> finding PCIUTILS fine, but the configure script for the driver in git
> >> wasnt. The Makefile defines some variables, and I was able to get the
> >> driver to build by doing the following:
> >>
> >> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# export
> >> PCIUTILS_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -lpci -lz"
> >> [root at desktop ~/xf86-video-radeonhd]# export
> >> PCIUTILS_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib"
> >>
> >> Now to install the driver and test.. I'll get back to the list with
> >> the results.
> >>
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