Description of problem: At any resolution, when X starts, it starts out dark--sometimes with "nifty"-looking spashes of purple/blue/white color--and gradually brightens until the screen is a dark gray with two thin vertical bands of lighter gray at (if you imagine the screen divided into 5 parts) part 2 and 4 of 5. The splashes of color, if any, stay present throughout. It then stays this way. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.195-3.fc8 How reproducible: Every time. Tried reconfiguring with system-config-display --reconfig, tried various resolutions, no change to behavior. Using the vesa driver instead works. Steps to Reproduce: 1. system-config-display --reconfig on a ATI Radeon Mobility X300. I happen to have a laptop LCD panel 1920x1200. 2. Start X 3. Actual results: See a messed up display, as described above. Expected results: X should Just Work (TM), just like it did in Fedora 7. Additional info: This is a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. This bug forced me to text mode install, as it also affects the installer.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 265551 [details] generated xorg.conf xorg.conf after system-config-display --reconfig and setting LCD panel type to 1920x1200
Created attachment 265561 [details] Xorg.0.log after doing an init 5 followed by init 3 To my surprise (considering what happens when I do system-config-display with this xorg.conf in place), this actually worked as expected. Startx works as well.
Created attachment 265571 [details] Xorg.0.log with no xorg.conf and startx This also worked as expected.
The Xorg.setup.log that's generated when I run system-config-display has zero length. When I kill the X display (Control-Alt-Backspace) after it's hosed, this is printed on the display: xconf.py: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :17.0. Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 0 (Success) on display ':17.0'. I suspect that's entirely due to X being killed, but just in case...
is there still a bug here? or does it work had to tell.. if still buggy, please re-test with latest ATI driver in updates-testing...
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
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.