Dave Mack wrote:
I installed FC3rc5 on an elderly box with i810 graphics and the desktop
is seriously broken - nothing redraws correctly, the background shows
through xterms, resizing makes windows disappear etc. Thought it might
be gnome/metacity gone insane, but KDE is just as a bad, so it looks
like it has to be X. Upgrading to rawhide didn't change anything.
Is anyone else seeing this?
Dave
Yep! There seems to be either an acceleration problem or kernel problem
with the i810 driver for 815 chipsets and maybe others. The below bug
report talks about options that must be placed in xorg.conf in order to
mask the fouled up driver for our card types. FC4 was pushed as a solution.
Anyway, the problem lies within xorg-x11 and changes made for the
current version that destroy the 815 chipset graphics quality.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132267
Jim
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