In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:17 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts
>> contents of some scrolling text windows. It looks like this:
>>
>> http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png
>
> wow, never seen that and I've used most versions of ati-drivers up to
> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1
The only program it reliably happens with is aterm. Other
terminal programs don't seem to trigger the bug. I suspect
that rxvt will also trigger it since they share a lot of code.
I'm not sure when it started to happen. I think it worked OK
back in the 8.2x series, but you can't run those drivers with
newer kernels and new versions of xorg.
> maybe provide your card specs?
It's an IBM Thinkpad with an M22 X300 chipset w/ 64MB of
RAM. I can look up the chipset rev tomorrow.
>> The Xorg "radeon" driver doesn't have this problem, but DRI
>> support in that driver doesn't work for some of the programs I
>> run.
>
> unfortunately, neither the xorg radeon driver nor the ati radeon driver
> give me very good performance... on a RV350 "Mobility Radeon 9600 M10".
Yea, I've noticed that. The radeon driver DRI support only
works for some programs and at about a 20% reduced frame rate.
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at BEACH goes on", huh,
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