On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:51:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:50PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > Hi Branden, > > > > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 11:42 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "ATI Radeon 9000" > > > Driver "ati" > > > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS,CRT" > > > EndSection > > > > Does commenting out one or both of these options make a difference? > > I'll give that a try this weekend. Earlier this week I was away from the > machine. > > Thanks for the suggestion! Er, I completely zoned on this. FWIW, I am now running: ii xserver-xorg 7.0.18 the X.Org X server ii xserver-xorg-core 1.0.2-8 X.Org X server -- core server ii xserver-xorg-input-all 7.0.18 the X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1.0.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1.0.4-3 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.4-5 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86 server ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.4.1-2 X.Org X server -- wacom input driver ii xserver-xorg-video-all 7.0.18 the X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-chips 1.0.1.3-3 X.Org X server -- Chips display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 0.1.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-glint 1.0.1.3-3 X.Org X server -- Glint display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-imstt 1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- IMSTT display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-mga 1.2.1.3.dfsg.1-2 X.Org X server -- MGA display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-nv 1.0.1.5-2 X.Org X server -- NV display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-s3 0.3.5.4-3 X.Org X server -- legacy S3 display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-s3virge 1.8.6.5-2 X.Org X server -- S3 ViRGE display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-savage 2.0.2.3-4 X.Org X server -- Savage display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-sis 0.8.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- SiS display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-sisusb 0.7.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- SiS USB display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-tdfx 1.1.1.3-3 X.Org X server -- tdfx display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-trident 1.0.1.2-2 X.Org X server -- Trident display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-v4l 0.0.1.5-1 X.Org X server -- Video 4 Linux display driver ii xserver-xorg-video-vga 4.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- VGA display driver But there has been no evident change. A few data points: Commenting out both no difference Commenting out only "MonitorLayout" no difference Commenting out only "UseFBDev" even worse! "Even worse" consists of vertical red stripes on the screen. Please see the digital camera photo at: http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/branden_grief_3.jpeg It's a little dark but using flash was worse, and you should still be able to get the gist of the interference. I do have one further data point which renders the X.Org X server usable again. At least as far back as 6.8.2, the X server has had a problem in which the display gets shifted several pixels to the right. This usually happened after power-cycle events on the monitor, but with 7.0 I note that it happens across server resets too. On my Samsung SyncMaster 213T I cannot perform manual adjustments to the positioning on a digital input, so at first this is really awful. However, if I use xvidtune to adjust the screen *either* left *or* right (you'd think only left would work), the screen image is centered perfectly. This worked back in 6.8.2, and I never filed a bug about it. 7.0 still exhibits this problem (and the fix still works) *but*, doing this adjustment also makes the pink interference go away. I haven't tested in the "commening out only "UseFBDev" case" yet. So this pink suffusion problem and the off-centered image problem seem to be correlated somehow. Please let me know if I can provide any further information. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of Free Software Developer | soul, then believe; if you wish to branden@deadbeast.net | be a devotee of truth, then http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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