The hardware, an HP Omnibook 6000. The card, an ATI Rage Mobility P/M, with 8 megs of VRAM. Native resoltion is 1400x1050. Xorg's ATI driver, thrown into 1400x1050, has visible corruption on the mouse, and the screen is wrapped around for the first 10 or so lines. Confirmed with a copy of Knoppix 5.0.1 (Xorg 7.0) -- using ATI driver corrupts, but Vesa driver doesn't. Workaround: use Xorg's Vesa driver. redwolf ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17.1-redwolf i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.1-redwolf i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.5/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups dbus dri emboss encode firefox foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hal imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_en userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Please attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, supply the output of `emerge -vp xorg-server xf86-video-ati` and reopen. Also, does this happen on other resolutions?
This was in 6.8.2, and the resolution switching also messes up. Knoppix' own attempt looked like to damage the screen (!). I'm compiling up 7.1 now to double-check, and will post the required info.
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Created attachment 90331 [details] Log run Log run of "X -config ~/xorg.conf"
redwolf ~ # emerge -pv xorg-server xf86-video-ati These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0-r1 USE="-3dfx -debug -dmx dri -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal nptl sdl xorg -xprint" INPUT_DEVICES="-acecad -aiptek -calcomp -citron -digitaledge -dmc -dynapro -elo2300 -elographics evdev -fpit -hyperpen -jamstudio -joystick keyboard -magellan -magictouch -microtouch mouse -mutouch -palmax -penmount -spaceorb -summa synaptics -tek4957 -ur98 -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="-apm -ark -chips -cirrus -cyrix -dummy -epson -fbdev -glint -i128 -i740 -i810 -imstt mach64 -mga -neomagic -nsc -nv -r128 -radeon -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l vesa -vga -via -vmware -voodoo" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.1 USE="-debug dri" 0 kB Different resolutions in this configuration are just scaled up to fit the 1400x1050 screen, and basically look worse (exhibiting the same problems, but with repeated pixels to boot).
Please file an upstream bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg and post the URL here so we can track it. Thanks!
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7750
