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tommyturbine

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Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 16

xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

Hiya, I've had problems with the latest version of xorg-server on a Radeon Mobility M6 (IBM Thinkpad X31). After the upgrade input into SLiM was totally broken and the screen was completely drained of colour and very dim. I tried enabling KMS (I had it disabled to avoid rendering problems with Mesa) and the screen looked slightly different but no improvement.

I've fixed the problem by rolling back to xorg-server-1.6.3.901, xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0, xf86-video-ati-6.12.4 and xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5.

eric

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From: under heaven

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 118

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

If you're willing to rebuild mesa (libgl, mesa and ati-dri), this thread may have a solution: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82461

seblamb

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Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 1

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

I have the same problem with the same computer under KDE 4.

I'm not using kwin, so I don't think that mesa is the problem.

Bor

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Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 3

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

I have the same problem
on Gentoo Linux
with xorg-server-1.7.1, xorg-video-ati and Gnome

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

Did anyone of you guys actually try to disable KMS according to the Wiki? I can't see this from your posts. My ATI card doesn't like KMS and I had to disable it. After that, everything works like expected with xorg-server 1.7.1 and xf86-video-ati.

Bor

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Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 3

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

Did anyone of you guys actually try to disable KMS according to the Wiki? I can't see this from your posts. My ATI card doesn't like KMS and I had to disable it. After that, everything works like expected with xorg-server 1.7.1 and xf86-video-ati.

How check is KMS disabled ?

in kernel option i have:

append = "init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-16@60 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 resume2=file:/dev/hda3:0x44048"

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01)

tommyturbine

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Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 16

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

Yes, I have had KMS disabled using nomodeset since the initial release of kernel 2.6.31 broke hardware accelerated OpenGL for me.

Bor

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Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 3

Re: xorg-server-1.7.1-1 and xorg-video-ati

For me help is set DefaultDepth (in Screen section) to 15 or 24
it bug appear only for DefaultDepth 16

Here same bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513597