Re: Screen corruption under Xen DOM0 in firefox

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
> >     I'm trying Xen on my NetBSD 5.0 laptop and one thing I've
> >     moticed is that the Firefox window seems to suffer corruption
> >     when focus is gained/lost (this is under gnome on a Thinkpad
> >     T60p using the radeonhd driver on a ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
> >
> >     An example is at:
> >     http://mono.org/abs/xen-x11-corruption.png
> >
> >     Note that the 'Tools' on the menu bar has been garbled, as has
> >     part of the webpage.
> >
> >     Has anyone else seem anything similar?
>
> Does radeonhd use XAA? If so, and your X server isn't up-to-date (this has 
> recently been made the default), add the following to the Device section of 
> xorg.conf: Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true".

        I've been using modular-x11 from pkgsrc (and have the latest
        as of yesterday). I'll test out with that Option - thanks!

        Out of curiosity, do people tend to run X from xsrc or
        pkgsrc nowdays?

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