On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:41:46 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:13:24AM +0200, Hartmut > Wernisch wrote: [...] > > > > After some investigations I found that it must have > > something to do with the fglrx drivers. > [...] > > The fglrx drivers are buggy. There is a workaround for > this issue in cairo. > > If "dpkg -l libcairo2" says you're using 1.8.10-4, > upgrade now! > > 1.8.10-5 introduces this workround, 1.8.10-6 disables the > woraround by default since it adds a penalty for everybody > and fglrx is apparently the only buggy driver. > > Read /usr/share/doc/libcairo2/changelog.Debian.gz for how > to enable it! > > cairo (1.8.10-6) unstable; urgency=low > > * debian/patches/02_iceweasel-buggy-repeat.patch: > + Revert logic of the patch for the infamous > iceweasel rendering problems. The only broken X11 driver > that is left seems to be fglrx and always enabling the > workaround code in cairo causes severe performance > degradations for everybody (Closes: #594245). Thanks for > Josselin Mouette for the patch. Everybody using the fglrx > driver should set the MOZ_CAIRO_BUGGY_REPEAT environment > variable, everybody else should get a correctly working > and fast cairo again. > > -- Sebastian Dröge <sl...@debian.org> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 > 10:48:34 +0200 > thanks for that hint! I am running 1.8.10-6, but setting the env-var doesn't help. > > Now please go bug AMD to fix the drivers if you think > this bug is annoying! > Yes, I'll go with the fbdev for now. Thanks for your help! cu -harti es? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
