Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 595955
Video display goes crazy, like a vhs with poor tracking
Last modified: 2018-04-11 02:47:44 EDT
Description of problem: I've just created a live usb of Fedora 13 kde i686. The boot menu looked fine, then as soon as Fedora began staring, the display stated jumping around and had some horizontal lines. The only way I can describe it is like when a VHS would have poor tracking and you can still see the picture but it won't stay sill and has lines through it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I simply just tried to boot for the first time Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: The hardware is a HP nx9420 business notebook with ATI graphics (ATI Mobility Radeon X1600). Fedora 12 worked fine, unfortunately I replaced 12 with 13 on my live USB stick.
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 add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach * your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available), * output of the dmesg command, * system log (/var/log/messages), and * X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 417694 [details] output of dmesg
Created attachment 417695 [details] system log
Created attachment 417696 [details] this was the only Xorg log available
Any progress on this? I've installed Fedora onto my HDD, and am up-to date with everything but the problem still occurs.
This looks like bug 571046 radeon.new_pll=0 on the kernel command-line should work around it for now.
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