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Bug#479986: Colors are corrupted when using DVI



I upgraded my xserver-xorg-video-ati driver to experimental but the problem is still there

I also changed my xorg.conf file to use ati driver and am no longer using 'UseFBDev'

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
Amir wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-ati-video
> Version: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Severity: important
>
>
> I recently upgraded this package and the colors on my screen
> have become corrupted. They appear as rainbowish and neon.
>
> On DVI, if I switch the colors to "Vesa" the colors appear fine
> however the vesa driver only supports a lower resolution and is
> quite slow so it's not a complete solution.
>
> If I use the VGA connection (with a DVI to VGA convertor) this
> problem does not exist. In fact, I can stop the X server,
> change the connection to VGA, start X server, then switch to
> DVI and everything works fine!
>
> My graphics card is the ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MB with
> DVI-I output
> (http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/ati_aiw32/2.shtml)
> ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
>
> I had used this graphics card without problems for over a year.
>
> xserver-xorg   1:7.3+10       the X.Org X server
>
> Linux debian 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 00:37:55 UTC 2008
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Note that I get the same results whether I use the "ati"
> driver, "radeon" driver or do "UseFBDev" "true"

UseFBDev doesn't exist anymore, it's ignored.
Can you try xserver-xorg-video-ati from experimental?

Brice



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