[Savage40] Small video glitches with savage snapshot

[Alex Deucher]

--- bjorn+savage at update.uu.se wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I downloaded and installed the driver snapshots
> 
>
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/savage-20050314-linux.i386.tar.bz2
>
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/savage-20050404-linux.i386.tar.bz2
> 
> and compared to Tim's old 1.1.27t, the snapshots seems to introduce a
> few new small glitches. I'll try switching back and forth between
> 1.1.27t
> 
> First, after running for a while, the top lines of video get garbled.
> 
> Second, I get a weird pattern across the video window every now and
> then. The garbled top lines are persistent, but go away if you, e.g.,
> move the window. The pattern comes and goes, and seems related to
> what's going on in other windows.
> 
> I can't seem to provoke the glitches, but if I just let the video
> window run (while I'm doing things in other windows), sure enough, it
> will happen.
> 
> Any idea what might be up? I'd post a screenshot of a window showing
> the glitch, but naturally, all I get is the key-color... ;-)

The savage streams engine is possibly the root of all evil.
try turning off BCIforXv in your xorg config.

Alex

> 
> /Bjorn



		
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