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sblaineyuk n00b
Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 34
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: [solved] raptor gfx - yellow trails on xorg |
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I have a Raptor card (Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2]) in my Netra t1125, which uses the glint xorg driver. This is detected and starts up fine, however once I am in Gnome I get a yellow trail which follows the mouse around, some of the icons have a yellow highlight and some text a yellowish tinge. Unfortunately I can't take a screenshot as the screenshot application crashes when I try to use it.
What I experience is very similar to this xorg bug however that's the ATI driver.
Does anyone have this card working correctly? Or should I be filing a bug with xorg?
Last edited by sblaineyuk on Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Steevuk n00b
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Wiltshire, England
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: raptor gfx - yellow trails on xorg |
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This is a "me too" .... not suprising since I have the same card,
bought from the same E-bay seller a few days after yours.
On my Ultra 60 running 2.4.29 with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 I get the
same yellow highlights on icons, menu entries and some text.
Running the mouse over an icon is sometimes enough to remove the
highlight. Xterm is not affected so I guess I can live with it.
No yellow mouse trails but that will be because I run IceWM.
I tried all options on the "glint" manpage without success,
though switching to 8-bit depth removes the fault! |
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sblaineyuk n00b
Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 34
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: solved! |
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Yesterday I worked out how to fix it... and am now running happily without yellow trails
The trick is to get glint to use the frame buffer (the relevant section from xorg.conf):
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "glint"
VendorName "Texas Instruments"
BoardName "TVP4020 [Permedia 2]"
BusID "PCI:0@1:2:0"
Chipset "ti_pm2"
Option "UseFBDev" "True"
EndSection
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Steevuk n00b
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Wiltshire, England
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tip. For the record, what kernel and xorg versions
do you have success with?
I tried "UseFBDev" on my not-so-current machine and X starts with
no errors or warnings but the display switches to the initial
black-on-white Prom screen and then freezes. Perhaps permissions
on /dev/fb0 are not right but I ran out of time for this project. |
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sblaineyuk n00b
Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 34
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:26 am Post subject: |
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I'm not at the machine now, but I'm pretty sure these are the versions:
xorg-x11 - 6.8.2-r4
gentoo-sources - 2.6.15-r5
Did you compile support for the permedia 2 frame buffer into the kernel? If you're getting the black on white then it sounds like you mightn't have done that... Let me know if you want my kernel .config. |
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Steevuk n00b
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Wiltshire, England
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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My 2.4 kernel was built with CONFIG_FB_PM2, CONFIG_FB_PM2_PCI etc
and it seems happy because /var/log/messages has
"fb0: Permedia2 PCI board (Permedia2), using 8192K of video memory".
Also, I get a nice console if I boot with video=pm2fb:mode:1024x768-75
Thanks for the .config offer but I plan to leave this machine alone
for a while before making the jump to 2.6. |
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