Description of problem: After the update to 6.7.196 I've been seeing weird screen distortion. Reverting to F8-GA xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.195-3.fc8 makes these disappear. The effect is somewhat hard to describe: some part of the lower half of the screen is obscured with some random contents (looks somewhat like actual window contents) for a very small period of time (less than half a second?). It happens irregularly but frequently (once a minute, or so), and I think regardless of whether I'm actually doing anything on-screen at the time. I'm running using a single head DVI output, since I haven't got dual-head working since updating to F8. The monitor attached to the VGA port appears to be detected by X even though it's not active-on. Since the default X config gets the resolution wrong for the (Dell 2001FP) LCD panel, I switch to 1600x1200 using xrandr after logging in, if that makes any difference. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.7.196-1.fc8.x86_64 How reproducible: always
Created attachment 276101 [details] Xorg.0.log from 6.7.196
Created attachment 276111 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 276121 [details] lspci -nnv
Happens with 6.7.196-2.fc8.x86_64 too.
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