Bug 7201

Summary: ati driver 6.6.0 & new X.org cause horrible tearing with EXA
Product: xorg Reporter: Doug Goldstein <cardoe>
Component: Server/Acceleration/EXAAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: dberkholz
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Doug Goldstein 2006-06-12 22:32:35 UTC 
Two screenshots say it all..

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/files/Screenshot-2.png
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/files/Screenshot-3.png

Disabling EXA makes the issue go away.

The problem only occurs with Flash movies and VMWare... If Google Video doesn't
use Flash then it's with that plugin as well. Also using mplayer in a window
makes it only display black.. if I full screen it then I see the picture.

Again, switching to XAA makes all those issues go away.
Comment 1 Doug Goldstein 2006-06-12 22:43:29 UTC 
Forgot to mention that the issue occurs with or without Composite enabled.
Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2006-06-12 23:31:31 UTC 
BTW, this is usually referred to as 'corruption', not 'tearing', which refers to
minor intermittent distortions caused by redraws that aren't synchronized with
the display refresh.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6755 ***

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