Re: CG14 in 8-bit color

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:40:27 -0800
foo bar <tokenalt%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Sorry for not replying to the original email as I was not on the list
> at the time. So I've been testing the new sx driver for a bit and I
> have some good and bad news to report. First in 8bit mode it seems to
> work fine on my machine with everything I've tried. Testing was a bit
> limited since a lot of modern software doesn't support 8bit displays
> but nothing I tried showed any problems specific to the driver with
> one exception. 

Nice!

> The program rendercheck in pkgsrc will cause the xserver to instantly
> crash when doing the composite test in both 8bit and 24bit modes.

Hmm, I need to look at that. The driver shouldn't even attempt to do
any xrender acceleration in 8bit...

> The bad news is that 24bit mode now has some image corruption on the
> bottom of the screen. Roughly a 110 pixel tall strip along the bottom
> gets garbled whenever any window uses acceleration. This hardware
> works fine in 24bit mode under netbsd 9.2 and solaris so this is a
> new issue. Attached a dmesg below.

This is odd, then again my main workhorse has an 8MB VSIMM, and there
were some changes in VRAM size detection. What does Xorg.0.log say?

have fun
Michael