Bug#695474: scummvm blanks the screen every 5 seconds

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 07:52:19PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I run "scummvm" and it starts normally; in my case in a window with 3x
> scaling.  However, every five seconds the monitor blanks for about 0.5s.
> This is the entire screen, not just the scummvm window.  This still
> occurs if I switch to full-screen mode.  As soon as I quit scummvm, the
> blanking behaviour ceases.
> 
> I don't see any error messages except for this warning on startup, which
> looks unrelated:
> WARNING: SDL mixer output buffer size: 705 differs from desired: 2048!
> 
> I've attached the XOrg log; might possibly be using the VESA/FB driver
> on radeondrmfb.  I'll look more closely at that, it should certainly
> work with that combination AFAIK.  There's certainly some errors in 
> the log; not sure if they are harmless or not.

Installing xserver-xorg-video-ati does fix this.  It then correctly
autodetects the hardware and uses the radeon driver.  The odd
behaviour with the fallback vesa/fb driver is still a bit buggy
though.

Please feel free to reassign to a more appropriate package if
necessary, e.g. SDL, X, kernel.  And I'll be happy to provide
any further detail if needed.


Thanks,
Roger

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