Video distortion

[Steven Stern]

max bianco wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> Max
> 
Have you tried the latest drivers directly from ATI?

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html