Bug 990565

Summary:	Software update 29 July caused screen to be unreadable
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave P <dave.pawson>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-ati	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	collura, dave.pawson, rdieter, ti.eugene, xgl-maint
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Description Dave P 2013-07-31 13:11:58 UTC

Description of problem: Applied all updates (software update tool) on 29 July. Thereafter majority of windows text and icons are unreadable. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
updated from  3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64 to 3.10.3-300.fc19.x86-64

How reproducible:
Booted into latest kernel, screen shows windows, but majority of text illegible, even cli text does not show. 
Tried with KDE, same result.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davepawson/9398487515/ shows an example.
Trying to use screenshot caused a problem to show in bug reporter. 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into newer kernel
2. Try to read text / use the machine. 
3.  #fail

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Expected results:


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Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2013-07-31 15:01:06 UTC

Probably need more detailed information to triage this properly.  Seems to be video driver related somehow.

Mind sharing the relevant content of your /var/log/yum.log for the day you mention?

Comment 2 Dave P 2013-07-31 15:14:22 UTC

See http://pastebin.com/GgrTNVmB
for yum log. 

HTH

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2013-07-31 15:49:50 UTC

Boo, looks like it included the trifecta: kernel, mesa, xorg-x11-server , could be any one of those.

What video card/driver are you using?  probably best to triage to the driver in use to start.

Comment 4 Dave P 2013-08-01 06:55:19 UTC

How to find out the driver? Graphics card is ATI Radeon HD4770.
?Triage the driver? What's that / how please?

DaveP

Comment 5 Dave P 2013-08-02 12:37:07 UTC

Further updates today. Yum log at http://pastebin.com/EkdVWkt7
Booted into new kernel, 3.10.4-300.fc19.x86_64

Problem remains. E.g. no text showing in command shell.

Comment 6 Dave P 2013-08-07 05:51:50 UTC

Further updates applied.
Yum log at http://pastebin.com/ZYm6PhxL

Still no text showing in a terminal window.

Comment 7 Dave P 2013-08-11 11:19:43 UTC

Should I start again with a new install of Fedora? Do you think that would work? Or do you think  this be fixed?
Dave

Comment 8 Dave P 2013-08-14 08:56:29 UTC

Updates applied 14 Aug. 
yum log http://pastebin.com/7agT2EkC

Still no characters visible in text window.

Comment 9 Dave P 2013-08-16 13:49:05 UTC

Since no reply from Fedora devs, I tried a little experiment.
New disk. New Fedora 19 download.
 Installed from DVD.
   Window text showed fine.
Updated from repos, half a gig of udpates.

Hey presto, no text visible.

My guess? Fedora 19, more recent versions, simply does not work
with  Graphics card is ATI Radeon HD4770

Which distro next?

Comment 10 Dave P 2013-08-20 09:58:48 UTC

Update to kernel 3.10.7 has no effect.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986375 could be related,.

Comment 11 Dave P 2013-08-26 07:35:23 UTC

No response. My options are clear now. Thanks.