Bug 465832 - only 2/3 of screen usable
Summary: only 2/3 of screen usable
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 464853
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-06 16:09 UTC by Sebastian Vahl
Modified: 2008-10-08 12:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-10-08 12:54:19 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
broken KDE apps when maximized (89.59 KB, image/png)
2008-10-06 16:09 UTC, Sebastian Vahl
no flags Details
garbaged background in openbox (493.23 KB, image/png)
2008-10-06 16:13 UTC, Sebastian Vahl
no flags Details
xorg.conf (837 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2008-10-06 16:13 UTC, Sebastian Vahl
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log (50.40 KB, text/x-log)
2008-10-06 16:15 UTC, Sebastian Vahl
no flags Details

Description Sebastian Vahl 2008-10-06 16:09:55 UTC
Created attachment 319568 [details]
broken KDE apps when maximized

Description of problem:
Only 2/3 of the screen is usable with the radeon driver. It starts with the login manager: With KDM the right 1/3 is garbage, with GDM the session box (GNOME, KDE, etc) is only half shown. After a login in KDE maximized windows looses some buttons in the upper right and sometimes the right half isn't visible (first screenshot). After a login in openbox the desktop wallpaper isn't set properly (second screenshot).
If I use "vesa" everything is working fine. Also "nv" on another machine doesn't have this problems. I've tried some older drivers and it seems that the last working version was xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-15.fc10. With release 16 and above I'm getting these issues.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-21.fc10
kernel-2.6.27-0.392.rc8.git7.fc10

How reproducible:
ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-21.fc10
2. start X (esp. KDM)
3. login
  
Actual results:
The right 1/3 of the screen isn't really usuable

Expected results:
full screen area should be usuable.

Additional info:
I'm also one of the guys who have to use "nomodeset" at grub. So I cannot say if it's working with normal modesetting enabled.

Comment 1 Sebastian Vahl 2008-10-06 16:13:03 UTC
Created attachment 319569 [details]
garbaged background in openbox

Comment 2 Sebastian Vahl 2008-10-06 16:13:29 UTC
Created attachment 319570 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 3 Sebastian Vahl 2008-10-06 16:15:00 UTC
Created attachment 319571 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 4 José Matos 2008-10-07 16:46:55 UTC
I have the exact same problems. I should say that I use also mostly kde applications but in my testing the problems are not restricted to kde applications.

Mozilla shows the same problems although in a lesser degree.
There are applications that are more affected than others, konqueror is not affected, on other hand kmail is heavily affected. The rightmost part of the screen (roughly 1/3 as Sebastian says) is not drawn correctly if at all.

My hardware profile is the following:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_6824ca5e-57e4-4026-b764-c5dc475eb220

Taking the advice of Sebastian I can confirm that xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-15.fc10 works perfectly.

When booting without the nomodeset option the same area of the screen is garbled when X freezes after leaving plymouth.

Comment 5 Michal Schmidt 2008-10-08 12:54:19 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464853 ***


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