On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Christian Weisgerber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martynas Venckus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The workaround exists in xserver-7.5, and it should 'just work'
>> when our X hackers merge it.
>>
>> For some people, this work around is known to work,
>>         Option          "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>>         Option          "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
>
> These are two distinct workarounds.
> * If you use XAA acceleration, set Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
>  "true".  This should be safe.
> * Alternatively, switch from XAA to EXA, if the latter is supported
>  and proves to work for your graphics card.
>
>> This is not a OpenBSD-specific bug, and upstream X.Org is aware of
>> it.
>
> Indeed.
>
> FWIW, I've run into the same problem on a non-OpenBSD platform and
> for the "ATI Radeon X300SE" radeon(4) card I use there, switching
> to EXA made a vast improvement for FF3: various rendering problems
> disappeared and some pages that were painfully slow to display have
> sped up tremendously.

Wow, It looks just perfect now!  Can't wait for the X.org folks to get
this "fix" in.
Brandon

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