Hello, again! Got a new (used) thinkpad, at last. It's not a A21p any more, but I've got the predecessor A20p. It has got the same graphic-chipset from Ati but the display does not reach the 1600x1200 from the A21p ("only" 1400x1050) - apart from that it is pretty much the same machine. At least the mobo is totally identical. I've experienced the same issue, if I take a "normal" xorg.conf. The screen is garbled like described above. This means, that my problem is reproducible on other machines, too. Unfortunately, I can't prove, that my "new" thinkpad's has a broken GPU, too - but it seems very unlikely to me. Also, I can say, that this machine is not in such a bad condition, my old thinkpad was... Maybe I should mention, that I'm using squeeze, now. Maybe this is related to my problem: I read on phoronix, that the coming kernel-version 2.6.33 has some fixes with EDID - so _maybe_ this bug will be solved, soon: "The core DRM in this pull request is also carrying a number of EDID fixes to help those with quirky monitors[...]" (From http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc4OQ) When 2.6.33 is ready, I'll give it a try and let you know. (I didn't know, that the kernel's also responsible for the EDID stuff - so maybe, I filed the bugreport against the wrong package?) Greetings Mitsch
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