Broken video drivers in new modular X

Sadda Teh saddateh at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 18:16:57 UTC 2005


Willem, the screenshot (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=3851)
you posted in x.org <http://x.org>'s bugzilla is pretty much exactly what
I'm seeing on my Inspiron 8000 when I use the vesa driver.

On 11/21/05, Willem Riede <wrrhdev at riede.org> wrote:
>
> 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> <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.
>
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