Description of problem: Since I upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5, sometimes the display is corrupted and a "ghost" image of the screen appears vertically displaced a few cm below the actual screen. This happens either when switching between X and the console or when the machine is left for a while and taken out of powersaving mode. I can normally fix it by switching between X and the console again or toggling my KVM switch. Initially I thought the KVM might be responsible, but the problem was still present when I removed it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 I'm not sure this is a kernel problem. I've installed the latest FC5 updates. How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login, start X session 2.Switch from X session to console 3.Switch back to X session Actual results: Display is corrupted with "ghost" image Expected results: Display not corrupted Additional info:
Created attachment 135299 [details] Output from dmesg
Created attachment 135301 [details] Xorg.0.log
Changing to proper owner, kernel-maint.
This bug is annoying. Is there nothing I can do to help investigate it?
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
Still a problem with version 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
I've also noticed that the display is sometimes corrupted in the same way when have X running and I turn the monitor on and off. Repeatedly turning on and off the monitor will produce one of several effects at random, including normal display. When the display is corrupted there is always the ghost image of each window 3cm below its correct location but sometimes this is more accentuated and other times the display is flickery. Is no one assigned to look at this? I would be happy to help but I don't really know where to start.
I've upgraded to Fedora Core 6 and the bug is still there. I've built my own xorg-x11-drv-i810 rpm. Any suggestions as to where to start debugging?
Following suggestions in other related bug reports I moved my xorg.conf out of the way to see if the screen mode would be auto-detected. I noticed that the default resolution is 1280x1024 where as previously I had been using 1024x768. There are no problems with the display at this higher resolution. When switching to 1024x768, the strange effects I was seeing before returned. I solved this problem when I dicovered I could write a Modeline specific for the the 1024x768 resolution as follows: Modeline "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync -Vsync This seems to work for my graphics card / monitor combination (Intel 810 / Samsung SyncMaster 171P). So this is no longer an important issue for me but it would be good if the correct settings for 1024x768 would work by default. I'm also curious to know why this stopped working between FC4 and FC5.
Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, 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. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. [This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Xorg or Gecko. If you see any other reason, why this bug shouldn't be closed, please, comment on it here.]
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. {This is mass-closing of all obsolete bugs; if this bug was in your opinion closed by mistake, please, reopen it with additional information; thanks a lot and I am sorry for bothering you in such case.}