Radeon DRI Problems after latest X.org 7.3 update

Coleman Kane cokane at cokane.org
Mon Sep 17 07:41:07 PDT 2007


Hi all,

Ever since I updated to the latext X.org 7.3 ports, my DRI support for 
my ATI Radeon rv350 card no longer works well. Previously, I used compiz 
as my window manager (with patch available here to drm kmod: 
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11870). Under X.org 7.2, 
this had been working fine ever since I got around the FreeBSD kernel 
module issue above.

Now, I can run it, but I get a large amount of on-screen artifacts and 
visual glitches. From what I can tell, if I have multiple windows open 
(and the "desktop" window from nautilus does count) the non-foreground 
windows seem to get their visuals destroyed and replaced with scaled and 
faded versions of whatever the current foreground window is. I *am* 
using the fade effect in compiz, which makes the non-focus windows 
appear slightly translucent.

In addition, I reverted back to metacity (no composting) and I have 
tried to run glxgears. I get a serious amount of visual glitches all 
over my screen. Last time I tried this, my xserver crashed out (signal 
11). I'm running gdm, so it is revived after a crash.

I am curious if others are experiencing similar woes with the new 
updates, or if anyone has a solution.

--
Coleman Kane


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