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tririver

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 49

xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

Hi,

Recently I found emacs (both 23.4-2 and emacs-bzr) has a problem:

When cursor runs over text, some random texts are lost behind the cursor. They also randomly get recovered, at a time scale of order 1 second.

Here is an example: clearly some texts are lost in the 1st line.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OSDW … /emacs.png

I don't know where exactly the problem is. But when I downgrade xorg-server and xorg-server-common to 1.12.1-1, the problem is solved.

Note added: After today's update to xorg-server version 1.12.1.901-3, the problem is gone.

Last edited by tririver (2012-05-18 20:06:48)

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

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Re: xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

Just tried it on two of my machines with Emacs 23.4.1 but cannot reproduce your problem. Both machines have ATI cards with the open source driver xf86-video-ati. I am running XFCE, but that shouldn't make a difference.
What graphics card do you have and what driver are you using?

Stebalien

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Re: xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

Cairo?: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141679, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266

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tririver

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 49

Re: xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

Just tried it on two of my machines with Emacs 23.4.1 but cannot reproduce your problem. Both machines have ATI cards with the open source driver xf86-video-ati. I am running XFCE, but that shouldn't make a difference.
What graphics card do you have and what driver are you using?

I also use ATI open source driver. I use KDE. (Also it shouldn't be a problem of emacs configuration because I tried 2 independent versions, with --no-init-file option.)

I am not sure if the bug is triggered by any other parts of my system. The only thing I know is downgrade xorg-server solves it.

lspci |grep ATI
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series]
02:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]

tririver

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 49

Re: xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

Cairo?: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141679, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266

Thanks! But it's a different bug. In my case, the text disappears only after the cursor runs through the text.

namtsui

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Registered: 2012-05-13

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Re: xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

I'm getting the same issue. WIth xorg-server-1.12.1.901-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz I get slight lag in my terminals that makes it unusable.
Keeping it at xorg-server-1.12.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz I get no lag.

tririver

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Registered: 2011-03-02

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Re: xorg-server 1.12.1-2 breaks emacs [SOLVED]

@namtsui: Actually for me it's the opposite: with xorg-server-1.12.1.901-3 the problem is solved. The only problematic version for me is 1.12.1-2 ^_^