Bug#480869: xserver-xorg: xserver starts with shaded virtual screens

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2008, at 23:01, Brice Goglin wrote:
>
>> Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
>>> Package: xserver-xorg
>>> Version: 1:7.3+10
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>>
>>> With the most recent xserver-xorg package the X seems to work OK, but
>>> the
>>> associated virtual screens do something strange: they changed to be
>>> shaded
>>> (I can not come up with a better description) while the X-window
>>> behaves
>>> as
>>> previously. The interesting part here is that when the system boots,
>>> the
>>> text is clear white text on black background, but after Xserver is
>>> started,
>>> the virtual screens go shaded. The texts are printed as expected, but
>>> they
>>> are hardly readable: it is as if a filter or curtain was drawn on to of
>>> the
>>> screen. Another way to describe this behaviour is to say that the
>>> brightness of the screen is turned to minimum.
>>>
>>> I think this is an important issue, because it almost renders all of
>>> the
>>> virtual screens unusable.
>>>
>>
>> Is it better with the latest xserver-xorg-video-ati and
>> xserver-xorg-core from unstable?
>>
>> Brice
>
> I tried to install the versions from unstable, but after tehy were in,
> X would not start at all.

do you have the corresponding log?

Brice