Hi, > Do you see a way to work around this in the graphics driver. E.g. > blacklisting 24bpp modes > etc. Even if X.Org people actually merge the fixes there are 2 years of Linux > releases out > there that have corrupted graphics.
For anything using kernel 3.14+ IMO the answer to pretty much *any* gfx issue is "use stdvga instead of cirrus". 3.14 got a kms driver for the qemu stdvga (bochsdrm), so the modesetting driver and all the modern stuff such as root-less X server works with the stdvga too. And the constrains cirrus has (due to emulating existing, old hardware) are gone. cheers, Gerd
