From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020524 Description of problem: Using http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/XF86Config-4.c400 as the XF86Config file I get strange rectangular display artifacts. This occurs, for example, at the X login screen (where the redhat logo is decapitated) and when I run mozilla. A screen shot of the later case is at http://genomes.rockefeller.edu/~clifford/display_bug.png. This is in 8 bit mode which is supposed to work I hear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy the XF86Config file mentioned above 2. start X. 3. Look at decapitated Redhat logo at the X login screen 4. loging and start mozilla, for example 5. Look at strange display artifacts in mozilla (see http://genomes.rockefeller.edu/~clifford/display_bug.png for screenshot). Actual Results: Strange rectangular display artifacts in X. Expected Results: Normal X display Additional info: Any XF86Config file which enabled me to use X in any sensible display mode would be very much appreciated at this point. I understand that there is a patch for higher colour modes coming but at the moment I can't use X properly in any mode.
Adding the "noaccel" option (as suggested by mharris) has fixed the problem. Although, of course, it means I have no acceleration now :)
Following more suggestions from mharris I have tried the various XaaNo... options (having commented out noaccel). Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" in the "Device" Section fixes the problem. No other single XaaNo... options seem to fix it. This gives me a basically perfectly working system in 8bpp.
Please file attach your X server config file and log file, as well as the output of "lspci -vvn" and "lspci -vv"
Without the information requested above, I can't troubleshoot this further, nor fix the driver. The problem will persist, and be in future releases, and all users experiencing this problem will have to hack in the workaround described above. With the config file and log file however, I can work a fix/workaround directly into the driver making this problem essentially go away for all users.
Assuming problem is resolved in Red Hat Linux 8.0 or rawhide in the new i810 driver and closing.
I no longer own the laptop so I have passed a message on to the new owner to wait for a reply. Raphael
Created attachment 89494 [details] The restults of running lspci -vv These are the lspci -vv results requested
Created attachment 89495 [details] lspci -vvn results These are results of running lspci -vvn as requested
Created attachment 89513 [details] X server log The X server log that was requested
Created attachment 89514 [details] X config file The X server config file that was requested
Hopefull these attachments contain all the info needed. If you need anything else please ask. I have reconfigured bugzilla so it has the right email address for me now. Raphael
Fixed in our latest beta release (phoebe), and rawhide.