Summary: in an xterm window, line are sometimes rendered in the wrong
position, but only with ATI Xpert 128 and
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-15.i386.rpm. Help!
Details:
I have an ATI Xpert 128 video card, based on the Rage128 chipset. It
was not supported under Xfree 3.3.5, the version that comes with
RedHat 6.1.
It is supported under 3.3.6, so I fetched and installed
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-15.i386.rpm from the Rawhide ftp site
(rawhide.redhat.com) and installed it. Note: the correct server is
SVGA, not Mach64 as one would suppose. Note also that the process
isn't obvious (for example, you need a new kudzo too). Anyway, I
succeeded.
Now I have a problem. Fairly frequently, text lines that should be
rendered in an xterm window appear outside the window. It looks as if
the rendering is starting at the left of the screen when it should be
at the left of the window. Once in a long while, it appears at the
top of the screen. The mess gets tidied up when the screen is
rerendered. The problem isn't repeatable.
Once in a long while, I get something odd in Netscape that might be
a manifestation of the same problem. I spend the vast majority of my
time in an xterm, so it isn't surprising that it shows up there.
I had no such problem with the system before I installed this video
card and X server. I haven't upgraded xterm.
The same server (XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-15.i386.rpm) seems to work
flawlessly on my notebook with the same system (RH6.1). This suggests
to me that the problem is Rage128-specific, and probably in the
server.
Has anyone else noted the problem? Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Hugh Redelmeier
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