Re: Neo 2360 @ IBM TP 600X running RH7.3 2.4.18 and XFree86 4.2.1

Egbert Eich <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:32:17 +0200 (MEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.neomagic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christer Nyberg writes:
 > Hi All ,
 > 
 > Sorry to bother you with this old problem, I found several questions 
 > regarding same issue, but however I found no answer.. :-(
 > 
 > Q:
 > 
 > I get strange drawing errors (horizontal lines) in 24bpp mode with neo 
 > 2360 in 24bpp mode when Acceleration is Enabled.
 > 
 > However no troubles in 16bpp accelerated and 24bpp _not_ accelerated.
 > 
 > And when 24bpp _not_ accelerated it is quite slow (read too slow :-).
 > 
 > I would appreciate very much for ideas and suggestions how to get this 
 > work.  
 > 

Acceleration in 24 bit is pretty broken on neomagic chips.
We had to disable the most importand accel function in the
CVS version for the 2360 and 2380.

Egbert.