On 11 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:03, Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.org.uk> wrote: > > On 10 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 14:21, Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.org.uk> > >> wrote: > >> > After today's upgrade of a lot of xorg stuff in Sid my full-screen > >> > display of TV is jerky, as is Googlearth. > >> > > >> > This is on a Thinkpad Z61M. I was using the radeonhd driver previously; > >> > I now have the upgraded radeon driver since radeonhd was removed. I > >> > don't know what to report a bug report for - the radeon driver or > >> > xserver-xorg. Anyone else seeing this? > >> > >> I see RadeonHD in my sid repos, but if you are using radeon now > >> I guess you might as well report it in that driver. But before you do > >> that, have you tried some of the various tweaks? I don't know which > >> ones are currently relevant (I am on Intel now), but there used to be > >> lots, from specifying exa or xaa to things like nooffscreenpixmaps. > > > > Yes, radeonhd is back now but using it doesn't help. I tried various > > options without improvement. I notice that DRI is enabled and I thought > > that might be the problem, but for some reason it is impossible to turn > > it off - Option "DRI" "false" does nothing. There are also some odd > > keyboard effects now - I can no longer stop X with Ctrl-Alt-Del. > > That is a change that Ubuntu convinced upstream to do, to get it back: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap" "false" > EndSection > > I don't know about the rest, except that disabling dri will almost > certainly make things slower. It sounds like a regression that > affects both drivers... I guess file a bug against one of the drivers > or against xserver, they can always reassign it if they need to. Or > ask on the xorg mailing list. >
Thanks to you and Andrei for suggestions. I have now got Ctrl-Alt-Backspace working again. But disabling dri (and glx, also needed) didn't help with the display on full screen. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
