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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:26:24 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        aa8vb@pagesz.net (Randall Hopper)
Cc:        ken@plutotech.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 8Meg Milleniums & XFree86 Direct Video bug  (was Re: FXTV - picture outside of fxtv window)
Message-ID:  <199902061226.NAA19582@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19990205194928.A5221@pagesz.net> from Randall Hopper at "Feb 5, 1999  7:49:28 pm"

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It seems Randall Hopper wrote:
> Kenneth D. Merry:
>  |One other problem I have:  when switch fxtv from ~640x480 (i.e., full size)
>  |to ~320x200, or when I exit fxtv while it is full size (640x480 window), my
>  |screen shifts one or maybe two pixels right, and one or two pixels down.
>  |
>  |It more or less wraps around, i.e., the pixels that should be at the far
>  |right wind up on the far left.  And the pixels that should be at the
>  |bottom wind up at the top.
>  |
>  |The wrap-around effect goes away when I move my mouse to the far right of
>  |the screen, and then to the bottom of the screen.
>  |
>  |This smells like an XFree86 bug, but I suppose Randall would have a better
>  |idea on whether fxtv could be doing something wrong.
> 
> Hmm.  Not too sure about this one.  It sounds like it may be related to
> something I fixed recently.  Sometimes, when switching video modes
> (full-screen zoom), fxtv would ask X to set the desktop viewport origin to
> an invalid value.  X doesn't do proper checking, and sometimes ends up
> displaying video memory that isn't even a part of your desktop.

Nope that bug has been there for at least 5 months, it did so on both
my S3ViRGE and Mystique.

- Søren

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