On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 01:01 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I’ve experienced screen corruption on my RS690M for quite a while; I > should have reported that earlier, but waited for new versions of the > driver; and while the symptoms have been evolving with the driver > version, the main problem is still here. > > Frequently, when I scroll in some applications (like nautilus or > epiphany), the screen becomes completely garbled. It seems to happen > when scrolling with the wheel in applications that are slow to redraw > (maybe when a redraw is triggered when the previous one is not > complete); this never happens when scrolling in evolution, xchat, > empathy or terminal windows, which are very fast to render, for example. > This doesn’t happen when scrolling slowly, waiting between each > keypress, either. > > Parts of the screen get better while being redrawn, but switching > workspaces is not enough. Things like the desktop or the panel > background remain garbled until I kill the nautilus/gnome-panel > processes. Often, some font glyphs are garbled too, and all instances of > a given glyph for a given font/color/size combination remain garbled the > same for a while.
[...] > [ 20.683347] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=384M, BAR=256M Looks like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35457 . Apparently there's something wrong with the way we deal with Sideport memory. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1332147739.4597.509.camel@thor.local
