Bug 2595

Summary:	X framebuffer (ATI Rage 128) issues
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Derek Greentree <derekgr>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kain, pvdabeel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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)