Re: RH9, Radeon 9000Pro, some horizontal streaking

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris www linux org uk>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Mike Godfrey wrote:

>Mike Harris wrote:
> > Not sure what the problem is you're having, could you elaborate a bit?
>
>Have a look at this short movie:
>	http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/ftp/radeon9000.avi
>
>If you put up a black background, you can see thin light coloured 
>horizontal lines flickering (ie a fraction of a second).  Here, I've put 
>up a gnome-terminal and a web page with black backgrounds ... it is 
>clearly a global issue, and not related to individual apps.
>
>Most of the time, I use light background with dark text, so I don't 
>notice it ... but it's clearly there and doesn't go away.  With a light 
>background, I sometimes see dark lines, but it seems to me to be less 
>noticeable than the other way around.
>
>I tried toggling 16 and 24 bit colour, tuning on/off 3e acceleration 
>(via redhat-config-xfree).  Same problem.
>
>It seems to me that it's a global refresh/sync problem ... but I'm not 
>the expert.

I don't have any video playback software installed to look at 
that currently, however I've bookmarked it for now to look at in 
the future.

-- 
Mike A. Harris