[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#596761: Bug#596761: Xorg crash and 2D rendering problems with fglrx-driver/glx

[Albin Stjerna]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:58:09 -0400, Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> this is a consequence of using a non-kms driver.  who knows if ati has
> any plans to support that in their proprietary version.

I see, thanks for making that clear.

> can you attach a screenshot (with a comparison to what you expect)?  do
> you see this problem in any other applications?

Hm. Well, it was quite obvious when you saw it: big black boxes around and/or over input fields appearing and disappearing seemingly at random, sometimes covering the entire window. But I ran aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE which someone told me would disable the new 2D acceleration, and it seems to work fine so far. However, when I tried running StarCraft (the original) in wine, everything was very slow, much slower than with the radeon driver. This changed when I enabled the new »opengl« DirectDraw rendering, leading me to suspect that accelerated 2D rendering is now completely disabled.

> that's probably an issue with openarena itself.  it just went through
> quite a few updates.  you could also check its bug reports and submit a
> new one.  try testing other games as well.  if most have issues, then
> its a fglrx issue otherwise its just an openarena issue.

That's very possible, especially since it at least crashes itself with every other graphics driver I've tried. Half-Life (1) now suddenly run in Wine, so I think it's fairly safe to say accelerated 3D rendering now works. Thanks! :)
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