Bug#462582: xserver-xorg-video-ati: regression, size configuration incredibly broken, on bog-standard display size

[Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:09:49PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> BUT, I have bad news now:
> Just did an upgrade to 1:6.12.5-1 testing (causing a large bunch of
> other xorg stuff to get updated), and directly after having started
> 1:6.12.3-1, the screen is now quite a LOT darker than before
> (in a weird twilight way, no contrast, no brightness, nothing).
> Reverting to 6.12.4-2 (the only one readily available) did not help
> either. And I DON'T think it's a (very) sudden monitor issue
> (the OSD still shows with original colors)
> 
> Obviously I'm not too happy about this state of affairs ;)
> 
> Any ideas? What should I test?

I got the old packages from
http://boisson.homeip.net/debian/Xorg7.4/i386/
did a
dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-ati_1:6.12.3-1_i386.deb
, same issue.
Then I realized that Xorg log showed Radeon entries (obviously, since
it's a Radeon).
Tried to downgrade to xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1:6.12.3-1_i386.deb , failed.
Had to downgrade xserver-xorg-core (was 2:1.7.5-1) to 2:1.6.5-1 , then
downgrading to xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1:6.12.3-1_i386.deb was
possible and the screen WORKED as it used to.

Trying to re-upgrade to xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1:6.12.3-1_i386.deb
(to check whether the problem lies with -core or -radeon) unfortunately
failed since it requires xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900).

Any other questions?

Andreas Mohr