Comment 20 for bug 36596

Hi Paul,

Glad your system has become more stable. I tried adding the AGPmode
switch into my conf file, but no good. I still have artefacts on some of
the buttons. (Currently in evolution the +0, Normal and justify left
buttons have different coloured pixels on them. If I fly the mouse over
them, they clear up.)

I wish I new how to write drivers, because this is one issue which is
driving me insane. The system was fine under Breezy, albeit without 3D,
which I still don't have. All I can do is sit back and hope these gun
programmers can suss it out.

Cheers,

Adam

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 01:57 +0000, Paul Drain wrote:

> Adam,
>
> Thanks for the information. Dropping the color depth to 16 does indeed
> fix the hard locks on both systems, suspend-to-whatever, the
> screensaver, OOo and firefox can all run without hanging the system now.
>
> First time i've been able to use my machine for more than a few hours
> without a hardlock in months.
>
> As for the artifacts, I have no idea why, but after adding:
>
> Option "AGPMode" "2"
>
> To the Device section of my xorg.conf file (found on one of the numerous
> 'how to get performance out of your ATI card sites' out there) --
> everything seems to work normally.
>