Description of problem: Small groups of pixel columns are in reverse order. The group size depends on the scaling factor. Columns 1 through 12 can be ordered 2 1 4 3 6 5 8 7 10 9 12 11 or 3 2 1 6 5 4 9 8 7 12 11 10 or similar. Text is pretty much unreadable. This bug affects the installer, the bare kernel framebuffer console, and the GNOME desktop. This bug hits very early in boot, even if X never runs. (for example, init defaulting to runlevel 3) The PCI ID is 4c59. This part is found in older Dell laptops. A much older Fedora (unsure: 6, 7, 8, or 9) did not have trouble. I suspect the kernel mode setting is at fault. The framebuffer console certainly doesn't help. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rawhide as of 10 PM, May 11, 2009 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the install DVD 2. get to the part where the graphical install begins 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Can you test with fedora 12 livecd and report if it works with it.
Do you have any reason to think that you've fixed it? If not, then of course it isn't fixed. Bugs don't go away on their own. I'll try to locate the laptop. Because of this bug, I told my employer that the laptop was completely unusable. For now, you may assume that the fedora 12 livecd does not work with the laptop.
We have done major update to radeon driver so there is good chance that we fixed this bug along the way (such things happen a lot in video driver fixing one things fix a bunch of others things).
I put this file on a CD-R. The date is from when I downloaded it. -rw-rw-r-- 1 albert albert 695205888 2009-10-16 00:26 F12-Beta-i686-Live.iso The video gets screwy during the part where a Fedora teardrop thing (small, on a sky-blue background) is being abused as a progress bar. It remains screwy after the logo fills in. Oddly, the mouse pointer is not affected. It remains screwy as I get the picture of fedora logos tiled like flooring receeding into a fog. It remains screwy as a dialog says "Select language and click Log In". I think that's enough to say the problem is not fixed... BTW, the bottom of the laptop says "Model No: PP01L" and "Latitude C510 / C610".
In case it might be related, the left most 1/3 of the pixels in the top line are dark. The precise length varies, with about 4 to 10 pixels of flicker at the end of the dark area. Also, 4 to 10 pixels flicker dark at about 55% over from the left.
I have smudged text too. What should I do? I believe it is an issue with my driver, which is a Radeon Mobility M6.
Still a problem in Fedora 31 beta, as of 2010/04/18 on a Dell C610.
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Have just tried my lap-top with this chipset using kubuntu 9.10. With its 2.6.31 kernel kubuntu does not exhibit the bug, therefore I conclude that it is almost certainly something to do with the RedHat kernel modifications that are not also applied to the kubuntu kernel. I.e. Somebody has broken it :)
Is this still a problem with kernel-2.6.34.6-47?
(In reply to comment #11) > Is this still a problem with kernel-2.6.34.6-47? Do you have a URL for a *.iso file you want tested?
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora Use a livecd and attach kernel + Xorg log of livecd if you see the issue
Sadly the lap-top that exhibited the bug is now dead.
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