Re: Horizontal Artifacts on Screen - Testing

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Tom Stockton - 2Ergo Technical Support wrote:
> I have upgraded my machine to testing, however since doing so my desktop
> has started intermittently displaying horizontal artifacts on the screen
> like this ... http://www.stocktons.org.uk/Screenshot.png.
>
> It does not seem to matter which applications I am running or which
> window manager, I have also tried changing the Refresh Rate from 75Hz to
> 60Hz and also dropping the resolution from 1280x1024 but this has not
> helped either.
>
> I have some kind of old ATI agp card (not sure what sorry) and am 
> using the ati driver.
>
> I had no problems whilst running Xfree86, this problem seems to have
> come about when upgrading to testing and xorg.
>
> Any advice much appreciated, as I have run out of ideas.
>
> My xorg.conf is below.
>   
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Device          "ati radeon ve"
>         Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
>         DefaultDepth    16
>   


I would try changing my DefaultDepth.

If that didn't help, I'd try using the "vesa" Device driver.

If that didn't help, I'd suspect a damaged video cable going to the
monitor; boot into another OS (Knoppix LiveCD, etc) and see if the
problem goes away.


-- 
Kent