[Gimp-user] bizarre behavior of tracing tools with GIMP 2.3

[David Gowers]

On 7/15/07, Olivier Lecarme <ol at olecarme.homelinux.net> wrote:
> David Gowers <00ai99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The version of Xorg is irrelevant -- that comparison only makes sense
> > if you have the same *video card* in both systems. This bug has been
> > reported several times, and it's directly related to X's driver for
> > your video card.
>
> OK. The video cards are different:
> - on the computer where it works correctly: ATI Technologies Inc RV 370
> 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
I'll add that here, I have an 'ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]'
running under the normal X.org ATI driver (X.org version 7.0.0) with
no XOR problems.

> - on the computer where it fails:  ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY
> [Radeon 7000/VE]
>
> But the X driver is the same in both cases, i.e. ati. Should I try the
> proprietary fglrx driver?
Yes, that would probably be wise.

>
> Anyway, thanks a lot for answering me questions not really relevant to
> this list!
No problem.