Broken video drivers in new modular X

[Willem Riede]

On 11/21/2005 02:44:08 AM, Sadda Teh wrote:
> Hi all, just writing to say that on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop (latest
> BIOS) with ATI Mobility M4 video the modular X vesa and r128 drivers do not
> work properly. When X is configured to use the vesa driver it comes up, but
> the picture is distorted (looks like 2 vertical desktops overlapping one
> another at various points, also colors are messed up). As for trying to use
> the r128 driver, X cannot even load when configured this way, it fails with
> an error along the lines of the r128_drv.so could not be opened. Has anyone
> else seen issues like this with the new modular X packages? Should I file
> bugs for these in x.org <http://x.org>'s bugzilla? Thanks.

That might be similar to the bug I submitted:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5108

Willem Riede.