I'm having a lot of video corruption on the new version of X on my ATI Radeon 7500-equipped Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. I'm running unstable. (That's sid these days, right?) I'm having a hard time isolating the problem.
Here are a few of the possible culprits: 1. The problem only presented itself when I upgraded to 4.3.0-7 2. I am using the drm-trunk module from freedesktop.org, built locally against a 2.4.24 kernel, also built locally. 3. There is a firmware upgrade available for my laptop that claims to fix a video RAM problem with the integrated Intel video, but I'm using the ATI video. OTOH, if the bios were misreporting the amount of available RAM, it could explain why X wants to write to parts of the screen that it shouldn't.... All the non-binary packages (kernel, drm-trunk modules) have been built using make-kpkg and the relevant dpkgs from Debian unstable and Michael Daenzer's DRI apt source (http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/). The only thing I've eliminated is the desktop environment -- the problem is identical between KDE and Gnome, and between different window managers in Gnome. I realize my system is (a) unstable and (b) highly customized, so I'm not assuming anyone else has had this problem before. (If you have, help will not be refused. :) What I'm mostly looking for are tools to help me isolate the source of the problem, at least to the point that I know which project to file bugs with. I'm also willing to recompile sources as necessary to troubleshoot. (I'm reluctant to upgrade my firmware without good reason, though.) Any help is much appreciated. Sincerely, Phil Groce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
