I've always had occaisonal problems with refreshes not properly taking place,
but since I've installed XFree86 4.2, it has gotten much worse.
If I invoke "xv", for example, on multiple pictures, then when I go to the
next picture it will very frequntly fail to properly refresh the picture.
For example, if the first picture is 200x200 and the second is 400x200, then
it will typically be the case that once I hit the spacebar, I see the
original picture on the left half of the xv window and the right half of the
new picture on the right half.
The other program where I notice this frequently is vncviewer. It has always
had some noticable refresh problems, but they seem to be markedly worse now.
With xv, I can work around it, usually, by quickly paging through all the
pictures and then back to the beginning but this hardly constitutes a fix.
And *sometimes* it won't happen if the machine is completely idle and I don't
try to flip through the pictures too quickly. Generally, the busier the
machine is, the worse the problem is.
Anyway, I'm hoping that somebody has some ideas about what causes this and
what I should do.
Here is the relaveent (I hope) info from the X log:
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
:
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.6 i386 [ELF]
:
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3
(II) Loader running on freebsd
:
(II) LoadModule: "r128"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
(II) Module r128: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 4.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
(II) Module ati: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 6.4.8
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
:
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 SM (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TL (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TR (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
ATI Radeon VE QY (AGP), ATI Radeon VE QZ (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility LW (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility LY (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility LZ (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QL (AGP),
ATI Radeon 8500 QN (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QO (AGP),
ATI Radeon 8500 Ql (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 BB (AGP),
ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP)
:
(--) Chipset ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP) found
(II) Loading sub module "r128"
(II) LoadModule: "r128"
:
(II) R128(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(**) R128(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(II) R128(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
(==) R128(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) R128(0): RGB weight 888
:
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF rev 0, Mem @ 0xe8000000/26,
0xfcffc000/14, I/O @ 0xcc00/8
:
(II) R128(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) R128(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
(II) R128(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1408,5957)
(II) R128(0): Reserved area from (0,1050) to (1408,1052)
(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1408 x 4905
(==) R128(0): Backing store disabled
(==) R128(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) R128(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Lines
Dashed Lines
Scanline Image Writes
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
15 512x512 slots
(II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) R128(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 4208)
(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1408 x 4903
(II) R128(0): Direct rendering disabled
(That release *is* older than 6 months, but I don't think there's a more
recent one out, is there?)
Dell Inspiron 8000.
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