Bug#234025: Fwd: Re: Bug#234025: xserver-xfree86: ati/radeon : dist-upgrade to xfree 4.3, display almost unreadable

[Merwan <merwan@altern.org>]

Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> [Forwarding my post to debian-x@ into the bug tracking system]
>
> From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.x
> Subject: Re: Bug#234025: xserver-xfree86: ati/radeon : dist-upgrade to xfree 4.3, display almost unreadable
>
> Merwan wrote:
>
> > After a dist-upgrade under sid which resulted into an upgrade of xfree
> > to 4.3, the display brightness is very high and it's difficult to see
> > anything. There were no problems with the last version of xfree (4.2.?)
> > My video card is an AIW Radeon 7500.
>
>
> Does your card have an S-Video connector? I had the same problem with my
> Radeon 7500 (plain, without AIW) with 4.2.* and 4.3pre* if I had booted
> with the S-Video cable plugged into the card, but not in the TV, so I guess
> that's an upstream/hardware related problem. The XFree bug tracking system
> doesn't list this bug, though.

Actually, I tried to start Xfree with the S-Video cable unplugged from 
the PC and... it works ! With the previous version of XFree, there was 
no problem if the TV was plugged but now there is. So, maybe it is 
possible to do something to avoid this in the code ?
Anyway, thanks a lot for your help.