Extreme graphical glitch on old thinkpad T60. Text wraps around the screen, not readable.

[ianniculescu]

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• Description:

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  • Bought an old thinkpad T60 with resolution 1400*1050, and GPU AMD ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 to try Arch Linux for the first time. Used the archinstall script do the work of installing sway with the right open-source ATI drivers and all the needed packages, also install xorg-xwayland on my own. (altought I have the same issue when installing arch manually.) Can't run sway before also installing polkit. Finally when I run sway I can use mod + return and run commands in the terminal without issue. The PROBLEM is that everything wraps around the screen, text is unreadable, the curser is a bunch of dots on multple lines, and can't figure out what to do. Provided pictures below describing the problem.

short video showing the problem https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/90414834/202855137-e3492d81-52cb-4b3f-bca3-fb9489950978.mp4

here pictures with various steps before I could run sway including neofetch, polkit ... ![sway without polkit](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/90414834/202854771-4d92f62e-65f2-4122-8270-9b

Thank you for your work on sway !

[emersion]

Your bug report is missing debug logs. Please add a link to the full debug log file.

sway -d >sway.log 2>&1

[emersion]

It's not a debug log, it's a regular log. Also it's a screenshot.

[emersion]

Ah, nvm it's a debug log, but who knows what part was truncated because of the VT stuff. Please redirect to a file and upload.

[emersion]

Nope. The Vulkan renderer is not supported on older hardware and is still experimental.

[bl4ckb0ne]

Fwiw using the pixman renderer would be more suited if the card is too old to have an opengl driver.

[bestuzheff]

Please! Fix this problem!