Bug 9611

Summary: flash with EXA enabled corrupts the screen
Product: xorg Reporter: Rui Tiago Matos <tiagomatos>
Component: Driver/SiSAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: alexdeucher
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Rui Tiago Matos 2007-01-11 09:47:04 UTC
using the proprietary flash mozilla plugin the screen gets corrupted if EXA is
enabled with either version 0.9.1 or 0.9.3 of the sis x.org driver.

Thomas Winischhofer fixed this in
http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/sis_drv_src_290906-1.tar.gz

Could someone merge his changes?
Comment 1 Rui Tiago Matos 2007-01-11 09:48:17 UTC
btw, Thomas wrote on his webpage changelog:

""
UPDATE (06/09/29) X driver: Version for X.org 7.1 available. The X.org folks
managed to break the SIS driver's EXA acceleration in 7.1, so here is a
corrected version. (I recompiled all other versions as well, but there are no
changes for these apart from the date they carry.)
""
Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:35:37 UTC
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 3 chemtech 2013-03-25 08:08:17 UTC
Rui Tiago Matos,
Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ?
Please check the status of your issue.
Or close this bug.
Comment 4 Rui Tiago Matos 2013-03-25 12:24:40 UTC
Wow, blast from the past. The hardware doesn't even exist anymore :-)
Comment 5 lewar 2013-03-26 15:10:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Wow, blast from the past. The hardware doesn't even exist anymore :-)

sis driver supports chipset XGI Volari Z9s, which is used in motherboards for servers.

BEWARE! Check for X.org support BEFORE YOU BUY hardware.

This hardware is still in use and can be bought today
http://www.asus.com/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/P7FX/#specifications
http://www.asus.com/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/P8BX/#specifications

The bug is confirmed in RHEL/CentOS 6.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896165,
which is using xorg-server-1.13, which dropped suppord for XAA in favour of EXA.

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