Video distortion

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 19:14:39 UTC 2008


2008/3/5 max bianco <maximilianbianco at gmail.com>:
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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > This sounds more like a hardware failure about to happen.
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> > I really wish there was a memtest86 for video cards.
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> I had not considered that possibility.  It could indeed be a hardware
> problem but i don't have any issues when i run without the livna driver. If
> i was having a video card problem shouldn't I have general video issues that
> don't revolve around the livna driver? I am out of the loop on video driver
> issues(something i used to keep up with), what, if any, other driver can i
> use?  Is the driver offered by livna  the open source or proprietary driver?
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> Thanks,
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> Max

Have you run system-config-display and verified that the settings
suits your particular display?




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