Radeon DRIVER

Alex alex at mailinglist.ahhyes.net
Wed Mar 11 20:16:51 PDT 2009


Completely disabling DRI seems to resolve the issue. Perhaps the issue 
is in the DRI/DRM code somewhere?

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?
>
> 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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