Video distortion

[Brian Chadwick]

max bianco wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Steven Stern 
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com 
> <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>> wrote:
>
>     max bianco wrote:
>     > I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna)
>     > because it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have
>     > time to deal with the problem then so its been on the back
>     burner for
>     > awhile now. Just yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have
>     > changed. The difference is now I would like/ want to use 3d
>     > acceleration. The distortion appears on the bottom of the
>     desktop. The
>     > top of my screen is reappearing over the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the
>     > screen. The computer remains usable but some programs are
>     affected more
>     > than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would like the
>     distortion to
>     > go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna drivers with
>     other
>     > Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than this one.
>     > My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some
>     modification
>     > that can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone
>     seen this
>     > problem? can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of
>     > researching a solution using google, bugzilla, and this list.
>      Any and
>     > all responses welcome.
>     >
>     >
>     > Max
>     >
>     Have you tried the latest drivers directly from ATI?
>
>
> No i had  not but i am going to. The livna driver is just the ATI 
> driver repackaged isn't it? I didn't think there was a substantial 
> difference between the two.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Max
>
the livna driver is the same driver, properly setup so it doesnt 
overwrite other important files. The ATI .run file will cream your xorg 
setup. Use the livna drivers.

Here is good advice :

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01565.html