Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

> ..are you using the "radeon" driver?  

Yes.

> (2 more alternatives to try, "radeonhd" and 
> "fglrx", I have no experience with those.)

Neither exists in wheezy, according to aptitude. The radeonhd homepage says
that most distros are now dumping it in favor of radeon.

> ..do you use "non-UTF-8" fonts or locales?  Try go "UTF-8-only."

Can you explain in more detail? I haven't done much with this in the past
and web searches are hard when my screen looks like this:

> > See screenshots here:  http://panix.com/~carlf/files

> ..show us lshw's *-display:0 section.


          *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=radeon latency=64
                resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f0100000-f010ffff ioport:9000(size=256) memory:f0000000-f00fffff
        *-pci:1


(Indentation above as shown by lshw.)

Thanks.
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