Bug 9990

Summary:	Broken vesa driver in Xorg 7.1
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Vangelis Papadopoulos <vangelis>
Component:	Driver/Vesa	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	major
Priority:	high	CC:	vangelis
Version:	7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Vangelis Papadopoulos 2007-02-15 11:58:49 UTC

Hello all,

I'm running on Kubuntu Edgy x86_64 with kernel 2.6.17.11 and Xorg 7.1
The below issue I had it too with OpenSuse 10.2(which also uses Xorg 7.1)

I am using the vesa driver for my Ati Radeon X1600 since I have a buggy 
combination of 64bit & x1X00 radeon & Xorg 6.9+(as for many many months 
it's a known problem for Ati) to use the propriatry driver, so I'm using 
the vesa.
Until I had no problem for my desktop using the vesa driver but after 
the update to the newest Xoorg 7.1 the desktop is ultra slow and seems 
like it renders the whole desktop on every scroll and window drag. X is 
taking 80% of my system resources, I have 1GB of memory so it's pretty 
much. 

After a lot of googling and searching&posting in forums I have been able 
to found that I'm the only one having this problem except this report 
too
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-September/018052.html

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=25061

Any feedback would be really appreciated. 
It's my first time reporting a bug so I'm really sorry if I'm doing something wrong. If I am, please show me the right steps.

Best Regards,

Vangelis

Comment 1 Maarten Maathuis 2008-04-17 00:43:38 UTC

What does this bug have to do with mesa?

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2008-06-25 11:38:30 UTC

There was a vesa bug ages ago that didn't properly set up shadowfb.  Fixed now though.

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