https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35998
--- Comment #21 from Milan Plzik emempi@gmail.com 2011-05-29 23:40:31 PDT --- (In reply to comment #20)
Setting this environment variable disables tiling in r300g:
RADEON_DEBUG=notiling
It must be set such that the Gnome Shell can see it, of course.
I tested gnome-shell with it; when using alignment table patches (Xorg's ColorTiling was always false), there was no change. However, when I reverted to original r300_texture_desc.c, things seem to work more-or-less correctly -- 8bpp textures seem to render fine (there's one case when I'm not sure), however, small 32bpp textures still render incorrectly.