Re: [PLUG] Horizontal stripes in debian testing?

[Pablo Tao Virgo <virgopa@earlham.edu>]

Thanks for the pointer, this seems to have moved me in the right
direction - I've googled to find a few hints that say I ought to be
using a radeon rather than ati driver for my ATI Radeon 7500 card,
(which I recall using for gentoo). There isn't a radeon option via
dpkg-reconfigure - Anyone have a sense of how one might find / build
such a driver for debian testing? (I do prefer using apt tools when
possible).

~Pablo

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:25, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:03:33AM -0500, Pablo Tao Virgo wrote:
> > I'm getting mostly odd green and pink stripes on my desktop, likely tied
> > to disk activity (?) using the current debian testing, Gnome 2.6 and X
> > Windows. The lines show up across windows, always appear to be about the
> > same length, disappear when the section of the screen is completely
> > re-drawn but will scroll with and move around with open windows as if
> > they were a part of the content. Any ideas where this comes from, how to
> > fix it, what package might be at fault etc?
> > 
> > ~Pablo
> 
> Pablo:
> 
> Every time I've had similar problems it's been one of 2 things - the video
> driver or a problem with the window manager.  
> 
> Several months ago, I had a problem on a Compaq server that created lines
> like you describe (except vertical) but ONLY with KDE.  Gnome worked fine.
> I hate problems like that.
> 
> You could try different configurations for XF86 and different video cards.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Eric

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