Very Computer

My system:

486 DX2/50
8 Meg
VESA 5248 Cirrus Logic gfx.
{Linux 1.0 or 99.pl14} with XF2.1

My Problem:

2.1 is great except that when I run XFig, the top of the screen becomes
corrupted by, apparently, xfig writing data all over it !
Since I am not running as root, I assume that it is a bug in 2.1 rather than
xfig, as xfig shouldn't be able to get past the MMU.

I haven't seen anything like that since I had an Amiga :-)
I'm running 2.0 now and everything is fine (if a touch slower).
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Quote:>My system:

>486 DX2/50
>8 Meg
>VESA 5248 Cirrus Logic gfx.
>{Linux 1.0 or 99.pl14} with XF2.1

>My Problem:

>2.1 is great except that when I run XFig, the top of the screen becomes
>corrupted by, apparently, xfig writing data all over it !
>Since I am not running as root, I assume that it is a bug in 2.1 rather than
>xfig, as xfig shouldn't be able to get past the MMU.

>I haven't seen anything like that since I had an Amiga :-)
>I'm running 2.0 now and everything is fine (if a touch slower).

It's a bug in the 2.1 Cirrus driver. It is fixed by using chipset "clgd5424"
in the vga256 section of the Xconfig. There will probably be some sort of
official patch soon.