CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 01/06/14 17:28, Koop Mast wrote:

Hello.



> So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for
> people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack.

I've got a 9.1/i386 box, running WITH_NEW_XORG.

My graphics card is:
 > vgapci0 at pci0:1:5:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x17041565 
chip=0x97101002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
 >     device     = 'RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]'
 >     class      = display
 >     subclass   = VGA

Since a long time, I've been experiencing really annoying refresh 
problems: sometimes, when I scroll a window, part of it will be updated, 
part won't (so the lines I see are not those I'm working on).
This happens frequently with OpenOffice, often with Emacs (both running 
locally or remotely through ssh) and sometimes with Okular; strangely I 
never saw this with ThunderBird or Firefox.

I upgraded cairo to 1.12 a couple of days ago, hoping it would help, but 
I see no difference: the refresh problems are not gone; OTOH, I see no 
strange artifacts.




> While this CFT is focused on the non-WITH_NEW_XORG that should not stop
> people that are using WITH_NEW_XORG from trying it out.

If you need, I can try to go back to without NEW_XORG and test again.
(I upgraded in the first place for the same reason above, but saw no 
improvement, only some more minor troubles).




> The Intel/Radeon KMS drivers shouldn't have any problem with cairo 1.12.

Sorry, I'll wait until console switching work, before upgrading to 10 :)




I could also confirm what Warren said: Firefox used to render blocks of 
text badly sometimes (usually fixed by scrolling up or down and back); 
this has never happend after the Cairo update (though two days are not a 
long time).



  bye & Thanks for your work
	av.