Description of problem: I recently reinstalled my F8 laptop (IBM T42 with ATI Radeon Mobility) card to F9. F8 worked great, and now I'm seeing some snow on the LCD with F9. The machine is connected via DVI using the docking station to a Sceptre X20G monitor. When using kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 and coming back from screensaver/monitor-power-off, I frequently get random snow-like-artifacts displayed on the screen. If switching to kernel 2.6.25.6-55 the snow occurs immediately after starting X and is more pronounced. This happens regardless of whether I choose the "ati", "radeon", or "radeonhd" video driver, so I'm wondering if this is not driver related. I can't tell but can provide more info as needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@localhost cobbler]# rpm -q xorg-x11-server package xorg-x11-server is not installed [root@localhost cobbler]# rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-ati xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-14.fc9.i386 [root@localhost cobbler]# rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd-1.2.1-1.1.20080429git.fc9.i386 [root@localhost cobbler]# rpm -q xorg-x11-server-common xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 2.6.25.6-55 with monitor/driver combination above, or use previously mentioned kernel and come back from screen-saver/power-off 2. Start X 3. Watch snow Actual results: Light flurries Expected results: No snow Additional info: /sbin/lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] Attached xorg.conf (tried with both "ati" and "radeon" as drivers)
Created attachment 310453 [details] This is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, montor freq/resolutions don't seem to affect the problem
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 X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachment 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 310454 [details] Xorg.0.log
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Now testing without Xorg.conf, will attach next.
Process attempted: mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf aside Restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) Power cycle the monitor Observe snow Now attaching logs. Note that the process above is a quicker way to reproduce this, the screen saver has nothing to do with it, power cycling the monitor is all that is needed.
Created attachment 310460 [details] This is Xorg.0.log from the attempt after deleting xorg.conf
As an interesting note, power cycling the monitor again can sometimes make the snow go away.
There have been bunch of bug fixes Could you retest with the latest kernel ( -132 at the time of this writing ) You can get the latest kernel build here http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=72270 And with the latest xorg-x11-drv-ati. ( -60 at the time of this writing ) You can get the latest xorg-x11-drv-ati build here http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=95 And report back if it either improves or fixes this issue.. Thanks.
The bug was marked needinfo asking if the problem was driver independent. If you read the defect, it says it is, yes. "This happens regardless of whether I choose the "ati", "radeon", or "radeonhd" video driver, so I'm wondering if this is not driver related. I can't tell but can provide more info as needed." (If anyone in Raleigh wants to borrow the monitor I'd be more than happy to let them play with it for a week)
Didn't see johann's comment earlier, I'll try this on F10 + aforementioned updates shortly.
Michael, Could you try the vesa driver as well ? --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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.
I have sense replaced both the computer and the monitor, so I don't have this configuration to test anymore -- though I believe I tested at the time and it did not help. However, I really can't be sure. I'm ok with closing this if you can't reproduce it.
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.