False alarm. My problems were completely hardware related. Screen corruption was present even when not using X and persisted across power cycles. The problem went away after changing video cards.
Thanks. Igor Quoting Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:56:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After upgrading to XF4.2.x in sid, I noticed something strange going on > > with my display. First I notices some light "snow", i.e. very few random > > pixels were the wrong color. Then more "snow", more pixels were the wrong > > color, but this time mostly around the edges of windows that just moved. > > This problem only got worse as I tried switching between between the > > text console and X. After doing that a couple of times and coming back to > > X, I found the display completely out of sync and completely useless. > > The X server did not crash, but also refused to switch back to the > console. > > I managed to safely reboot. Note that I went through all of this twice, > > so far. So it's pretty reproducable. > > This sounds like pixmap cache corruption. > > > This may have something to do with the "improvements" to the XVideo code > > for tdfx. I did manage to watch a video (using xine in fullscreen mode, > > which uses Xvideo) before the X server crashed, but did not notice any > > significant improvement compared with an earlier version of the tdfx > driver. > > On the contrary, I think it may have something to do with DRI. > > I think this because I have the exact same card you do, and do not > experience this problem. > > The only difference between our setups that I can discern is that you > have DRI enabled (I don't because I run at depth 24). > > Can you try adding the following lines to the "Device" Section of your > XF86Config-4 file? > > Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" > Option "XaaNoPixmapCache" > > Try one of these at a time, and if that doesn't work, try both together. > > Please let us know if this resolves your problem. > > My own config and logfiles are attached, in case they may be of some use > to you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
