Quoth "Branden Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:37:05PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: >> I don't know what you did from 4.1.0-6 to 4.1.0-7, but it broke my Dell i5000e >> (ATI Rage Mobility 128, using ati driver). The screen was covered with >> random display glitches (correlated with CPU utilization), and when I >> switched back to console mode, the system locked up. >> >> Downgrading to 4.1.0-6 restored normal system operation. >> >> If you need any further information, please let me know. > >In the future, please ask for help on the debian-user mailing list first. > >You can always find out what I did to a package by reading its changelog. > >There were no patches applied to the ATI drivers between -6 and -7.
This sounds on the face of it to be the same as a problem I have had with X since the upgrade from 3.3.6. I'm using an S3 card and the email copied below quotes a patch which is reputed to solve the problem. I lack the skill and the resources to make it work. Perhaps you could apply your learned mind to it Branden. thanks Mark > Egbert Eich wrote: > > > > Chris Kuethe writes: > > > some time ago i noted XFree 4 doing wierd things to my display, but only > > > in bit depths greater than 8. hoping that this may have been fixed in > > > ... any idea on where to go from here? > > > > Difficult to say... > > > > What happens if you hit the hotkey to toggle you thru LCD->Dual->CRT > > mode? How does the display look like once the mode is fully restored? > > no change - still the funky stuff, which incidentally is available for > your enjoyment at http://www.ualberta.ca/~ckuethe/ . it's the files > beginning witht "xf86-" > > > Oops, I remember: there was a problem in the driver: > > check > > trident_dac.c > > Search for SSetup: > > The lines where the register values are initialized need to read: > > > > /* Video */ > > OUTB(0x3C4,0x20); > > pReg->tridentRegs3C4[SSetup] = INB(0x3C5) | 0x4; > > pReg->tridentRegs3C4[SKey] = 0x00; > > pReg->tridentRegs3C4[SPKey] = 0xC0; > > > > But I'm not sure if this is your problem. > > > > Egbert. > > i've applied the patch and it does not help. i ran x with logging turned > up to 10, but it didn't seem to produce anything else useful. I could not open the screendump, but this sounds very similar to a problem I am having using the s3 driver. There is a patch for s3 mentioned in the archives of this list at http://xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-July/010102.html available at http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/pages/virge.html. I have not applied it yet as it means a bit of learning for me ... I am still tied up in .debs for X, and I need to free up some disk space for the source. Just wondering if these two problems are possibly related Mark
