Re: XFree86-3.3.1-22 screen corruption?

[Tethys <tethys@ml.com>]

>Hello, when runnning gimp on a 2x66MHz HyperSPARC SS10 with Ultralinux-1.09
>I get screen corruption as per attachement (freefonts/sharefonts installed)
>when running gimp (script-fu->logos->alien). Is this an XFree bug or
>gimp-bug?? Graphic: cgsix0 at 0x20000000 TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b
>(I tried with and without colormap installed option)
>The XF-22 rev fixed the cg6 colormap bug in -21 though!

This is exactly the same problem I have on RedHat 4.2/Sparc on an SS20
(150MHz HyperSparc, X11R6.1-Sun-pl1-23, dual cg6). I don't know if it's
a fault in the X server, some HyperSparc specific problem or something
else. It seems to be related to shared memory. gimp --no-shm --no-x-shm
solves the problem for me (at least in Gimp; other programs have the
same problem). I'm running very close to my limit of physical memory.
There's plenty of swap free, though. Note that I get this image corruption
in Gimp as soon as it starts. It's not related to script-fu->logos-alien.

I had been hoping that when I finally get round to upgrading to UltraPenguin
the problem would vanish. From this bug report, apparently not. Any ideas
welcome.

Tet

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