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Cwiiis
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 Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject: Radeon / framebuffer conflicts |
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Just thought I'd share my experience with some conflicts I had with the binary ATi drivers and framebuffer consoles... To summarise - Do not use the radeon framebuffer driver and the binary ATi drivers. Using the combination of the both results in conflicts during and after using overlay surfaces or 3d acceleration. Using the VESA framebuffer driver and the binary ATi drivers is fine, or the Radeon framebuffer drivers and the kernel DRM radeon drivers, or just not using fglrx with the binary ATi drivers (although if you're not using that, what's the point? :p)
However, the VESA drivers for the framebuffer work much better than the radeon drivers anyway, so there's not really any reason to use them... But just in case anyone else was having problems with odd flickering during video playback and odd artifacts appearing in the title-bars of windows and corruption of the screen when switching to a VT and back, and they have an ATi card - This is one thing that can cause it. |
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kojiro
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Joined: 20 Nov 2003
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Location: Rochester
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Radeon / framebuffer conflicts |
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| Cwiiis wrote: | | ...VESA drivers for the framebuffer work much better than the radeon drivers anyway... |
I'm running a Radeon 9000 Pro, and I'm using the VESA framebuffer drivers. Whenever the console scrolls fast, I get a nice graphic display of (I guess) whatever is in video memory recently. If I chvt and then change back, the mess is gone and the text is visible again. It's only a minor problem, I know, but it's annoying in console apps that scroll fast, such as irssi, and I'd like to know if anyone else has seen this problem.
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Cwiiis
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I take it back completely, all my problems have come back regardless of the fb driver... If I ever find out what's causing them though, I'll post it (or if anyone knows or has any clues, please say...)
I don't get the fast-scrolling problems, but perhaps I've just been lucky or haven't been in a situation where it would happen. |
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iob
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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same bugs here
i got flickering video playback (some annyoing green lines at bottom of video, but only on first video overlay) and some nasty glitches when i swtich from x to console and back - anyone has the mail of ati where i can punch em for writing this bad drivers?  |
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