Bug 186586

Summary: radeon display garbled and unusable
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
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'X -probeonly' log created by driver causing garbled display
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'X -probeonly' log from driver creating OK display
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xorg.conf
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'startx' log from xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060322 causing garbled display
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'startx' log after downgrading to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4 with OK display none

Description Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 16:02:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

After upgrade to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060322.i386.rpm on 
an IBM T41 laptop with a Radeon display card, as reported in lspci:
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW
[Radeon Mobility 7500]
the display was completely garbled / unreadable .

Downgrading to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.i386 and restarting X fixed the
problem, with the same xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.99.1-2 server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060322.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
start X
  
Actual results:
unusable garbled display

Expected results:
usable display

Additional info:
I'm attaching the X -probeonly logs
A) From the driver causing the garbled display:
   Xorg.0.log-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060322
B) From the driver providing the usable display:
   Xorg.0.log-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4
and my xorg.conf file.
Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 16:03:49 UTC 
Created attachment 126640 [details]
'X -probeonly' log created by driver causing garbled display
Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 16:05:11 UTC 
Created attachment 126641 [details]
'X -probeonly' log from driver creating OK display
Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 16:07:22 UTC 
Created attachment 126642 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 5 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 16:47:16 UTC 
Problem still happens with kernel-2.6.16-1.2088_FC6 .
Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2006-03-24 23:16:07 UTC 
startx normally with the problematic server, and attach the log from that
please.
Comment 7 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 23:41:43 UTC 
Created attachment 126678 [details]
'startx' log from xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060322 causing garbled display
Comment 8 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 23:44:05 UTC 
Created attachment 126679 [details]
'startx' log after downgrading to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4 with OK display
Comment 9 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-24 23:49:47 UTC 
Clarification of "Garbled":
With xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060322, the display is initially clear 
and the 'X' cursor shows OK until the first image is displayed (ie. the KDE/GNOME
splash screen). Then it looks like every image is repeated horizontally across
the screen at horizontal increments of around 10 pixels - this is repeated for
every icon shown when the desktop appears.
Comment 10 Jason Vas Dias 2006-04-05 17:37:06 UTC 
This bug is now fixed with xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4.cvs20060404 - thanks !