Description of problem: A white line appears at the bottom of the LCD when X starts. It first it's pale, then it gets brighter and brighter over the period of about 5 to 7 seconds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.8.0-1 How reproducible: Always, on this hardware. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start X Actual results: A bright line at the bottom of the screen. Expected results: Display only showing graphics. Additional info: This is a very long standing issue here. It probably appeared when X11R7 appeared, if not before. It does not bother me much, but then one day I logged out for some reason instead of shutting down. After a re-login, the line disappeared. So I figured that I'd let X hackers know just in case. The line is practically invisible if the bottom panel is in place. You'd need to move the panel before you can see the line. Another easy way to see it is to run an application which takes over the whole screen, like totem. The hardware is Dell D600 with a Radeon: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02) It all looks as if some register is initialized with size-1, so one scan line is lost.
Fedora Core 5 is no longer supported, please, could you reproduce this bug with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora Core 6, or Fedora 7, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX/INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. Thanks in advance.
Same on xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-2.fc7
BTW, don't we have tons of these laptops in Westford? I should clearly be seen (unless my own unit is defective).
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
The bug still exists on FC8, but I bought a new laptop and stopped caring. Closing.