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