Re: Dell Ati Mobility does not back-store

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:26:07PM +0100, Mario Stipcevic wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 with ATI RAge 128 Mobility (XX - some 
> version) card. I have been upgrading XFree86 since 4.00 till the newest 
> 4.2.X and I always have the same problem.
> I have a specific software that does not redraw windows upon bein 
> obscured so their contents gets erased forever. Prior to XFree 4.0 the 
> problem was fixed by itself, but after ver>= 4.0 one needs to specify 
> the option +bs to the server. This generally works but does not work 
> with the video card in my laptop.  I have tried both  +bs and -wm 
> options. +bs works better but after a short while backing store does not 
> wotrk at all.
> 
> Why is that and is there a fix ?

You should take a look at:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76671

Lates XFree86 CVS should be fixed also.  There was some discussion about
this a few weeks ago.  You might also try looking through the list archives.

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