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Bug 2595 - X framebuffer (ATI Rage 128) issues
Summary: X framebuffer (ATI Rage 128) issues
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-05-08 17:09 UTC by Derek Greentree
Modified: 2006-02-04 06:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Derek Greentree 2002-05-08 17:09:51 UTC
emerging X on a Pismo powerbook (with Rage128 mobility video) yields display 
problems in some applications (notably vnc and mplayer). Google searches seem 
to point at this being an endianness issue in the r128 driver, but other PPC 
distros like Debian seem to have corrected it. 
Specifically, launching mplayer in gui mode or playing videos shows the display 
area with a distinctive yellow tint; likewise running a vnc server off the 
laptop (either plain vnc or tightvnc) shows the same yellow tint.
Comment 1 Derek Greentree 2002-05-08 17:14:21 UTC
Xine is also affected; perhaps it's related to using the Xv video driver.
Comment 2 David Chamberlain (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-06 20:24:06 UTC
Would be interesting to see if this is fixed with the new (-r11) release of
xfree.  The old one had incorrect compiler options for ppc (hence the mouse-up
problem).  Perhaps this is the problem here too?
Comment 3 Mark Guertin 2002-06-20 01:41:57 UTC
I would think this is a kernel DRI issue rather than an xfree issue, I may be
wrong though (the kernel r128 DRI drivers are far from perfected ATM)