Bug 581791

Summary: ATI HD5770 ugly display when KMS is enabled
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Didier G <didierg-divers>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: anton, dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint
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Description Didier G 2010-04-13 09:00:54 UTC 
Description of problem:

ATI HD5770 ugly display when KMS is enabled


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series]

All following kernel with KMS enabled : 

kernel-2.6.33.2-38.fc13.x86_64
kernel-2.6.33.2-39.fc13.x86_64
kernel-2.6.33.2-42.fc13.x86_64
kernel-2.6.33.2-43.fc13.x86_64

libdrm-2.4.20-1.fc13.x86_64
linux-firmware-20100106-4.fc13.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-3.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.0-3.fc13.x86_64


How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:

Juste let KMS enabled

  
Actual results:

Dispkay are ugly, colors are insipid. Areas with light color looks like it was white.


Expected results:


Additional info:

If I boot with nomodeset switch, problem does not occure and display is correct.
Comment 1 Didier G 2010-04-17 01:25:10 UTC 
Same problem with kernel-2.6.33.2-49.fc13.x86_64, I have to boot with nomodeset switch to get correct display.
Comment 2 Didier G 2010-04-26 00:29:04 UTC 
I am now running :

- kernel-2.6.33.2-60.fc13.x86_64
- xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-2.fc13.x86_64
- xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64
- xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64
- libdrm-2.4.20-1.fc13.x86_64

and problem is still alive.

To help to diagnose and fix it, I send two photo of my screen :

- bad_with_kms.JPG
- ok_with_nomodeset.JPG
Comment 3 Didier G 2010-04-26 00:30:50 UTC 
Created attachment 409027 [details]
bad_with_kms

bad_with_kms
Comment 4 Didier G 2010-04-26 00:32:16 UTC 
Created attachment 409028 [details]
ok_with_nomodeset

/ok_with_nomodeset
Comment 5 Didier G 2010-04-28 07:34:54 UTC 
Problem is fixed by last kernel 2.6.33.3-71.fc13.x86_64.