Re: [PLUG] Horizontal stripes in debian testing?

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

Okay, I edited the XF86Config-4 directly to switch to the radeon
specific driver, and have tried with and without the radeon kernel
module, and am getting nowhere. Trying to use the generic vesa driver
results in my monitor going blank and putting up it's own "Out of Range"
message, the vga driver can't find the monitor at all. I'm not in a
position to buy another video card, is there anyone who could off some
suggestions?

~Pablo

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 11:08, Pablo Tao Virgo wrote:
> 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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