Re: Screen corruption under Xen DOM0 in firefox

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:58:39PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jean-Yves Migeon 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?
>>
>> Is it reproducible with other drivers, like vesa?
>
>       Its very hard to reproduce on my system with an i386 kernel,
>       but easy on xen. Under xen I see it with radeon and radeonhd,
>       but vesa does not run...

I see screen corruption with 5.0/amd64/20080227(?), native xorg nv
driver on a lenovo T61, without Xen. Parts of the screen are
duplicated into the lower part of the firefox window (sorry, no
screenshot).

I haven't tried the XAA suggestion yet.
 Thomas