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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #133192
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 133192

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: Screen displays garbage

I just spoke with Alex Deucher about this, and showed the screenshot. He's aware of the problem but doesn't have an idea about what may be causing it or how to fix it. It seems to have been an issue for a while in the -ati driver. It's probably unrelated to the kernel version (if you can prove otherwise, let us know).

Can people experiencing this problem please do the following tests?

1. Try disabling tiling by adding Option "ColorTile" "false" to your driver section.
2. Try disabling DRI by adding Disable "DRI" in your module section
3. Try both the above together

Also, please attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log in each of the above cases. Also include the output of lspci -vvnn.

More screenshots/photos of screens showing the garbage could also be quite valuable, so please also attach those if you have them.