From 910698ce395ac200b44238477e5278918dcf9782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nelson Ferreira Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:02:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Document text corruption issue with Xorg ATI driver * PROBLEMS: Document text corruption issue with Xorg ATI driver Signed-off-by: Nelson Ferreira --- PROBLEMS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/PROBLEMS b/PROBLEMS index 6e7bd23..e76f5d0 100644 --- a/PROBLEMS +++ b/PROBLEMS @@ -476,6 +476,20 @@ XMODIFIERS environment variables which influence the behavior of XCreateIC. Failures have been observed with XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus +*** Text gets garbled/corrupted with Xorg ATI driver + +Some versions of the Xorg ATI driver present display issues where text +display gets corrupted. Because of the conservative way SXEmacs +updates the screen it is more susceptible to these issues than other +applications. + +Some users have reported the problem goes away when using proprietary +drivers. CAVEAT EMPTOR: Proprietary drivers have also been reported +to break other parts of the system, most notabable are bad +interactions with graphic boot package Plymouth when it asks for +password for encrypted volumes at boot. + + * Original XEmacs PROBLEMS File =============================== -- 2.25.1