Bug 59366 – With RADEON 9000 and DRI in xorg-x11 I get screen wraparound / translation using a DVI cable.

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Shaun Crampton 2004-08-04 02:52:21 UTC]

If I run my screen in anything but it's native resolution of 1280x1024 then the top of the screen appears at the bottom (like a film-strip effect in a cartoon). This does not occur with the ATI drivers but I've found them to be unstable in other respects.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. startx
2. xrandr -s 640x480
3.

Actual Results:  
see attatched image

[Comment 1 Shaun Crampton 2004-08-04 02:56:33 UTC]

Created attachment 36739 [details]
Picture of the problem

Notice the KDE taskbar in the middle... that's the 'bottom' of the screen!

[Comment 2 Shaun Crampton 2004-08-04 02:58:49 UTC]

Comment on attachment 36739 [details]
Picture of the problem

Oops, taskbar got hidden just before the shot but the bottom of the screen is
where the grey strip is

[Comment 3 Shaun Crampton 2004-09-23 15:42:32 UTC]

Still a problem in xorg 6.8.0-r1

[Comment 4 Shaun Crampton 2005-01-03 16:54:47 UTC]

In fact I occasionally get the effect at 1280x1024 as well but turning the monitor off and on sorts it out (doesn't sort it out in 640x480 etc though).

-Shaun

[Comment 5 Mike Leonetti 2005-03-27 20:04:05 UTC]

I'm not sure if it's similar to Mr. Crampton's problem.  When I run anything but my native resolution on my internal LCD screen (1280x800) the screen seems to only display half and then the rest is black.  I wanted to capture a screenshot but the screenshot displayed the whole screen as if the bug was not there.  However, it surely is 'cause I can only see half of the screen.  The screen isn't crunched, cramped, nor resized.  It just doesn't show part of it.

I'm not sure if this is related, but mplayer, zsnes, epsxe, and practically every other program that tries to change the resolution fails and the program ends up running in either a corner or the center of my screen, very small-like.

I'm using ati-drivers-8.10.19, xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1, and my card is Mobility 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 256-bit 3D Video.

dmesg shows nothing interesting.  xorg output also shows nothing interesting.

If anybody wants any information please ask.

Thanks.

[Comment 6 Mike Leonetti 2005-03-27 20:05:29 UTC]

Oh, and on all external devices (CRT or TV) the resolutions and resolution changing function perfectly (or rather as expected).

[Comment 7 Mike Leonetti 2005-04-02 22:53:23 UTC]

I'd also like to note that turning "VideoOverlay" on fixes the mplayer resolution changing.  With that off or the "OpenGLOverlay" option on xv won't even work.  I should also note that at the moment that zsnes and epsxe are 32-bit binary packages that I use on my 64-bit system.  OpenGL for all my 32-bit games do not use the ati drivers and don't function properly.  It's probably not even related to this bug.  Sorry.

[Comment 8 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-10-05 20:34:46 UTC]

If this is still a problem with >=xorg-x11-6.8.99.15, please reopen.