Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:41:41 +1300 From: "James Butler" <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem (subpixel issue?) with ATI M6 Message-ID: <f0dd9eb90802270041x186cdc7dp5a797fb6309881e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f0dd9eb90802262343i7f1dff3rfd577ee90f3eed44@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0dd9eb90802262343i7f1dff3rfd577ee90f3eed44@mail.gmail.com>
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Just to follow up... I fixed this by using xf86-video-ati 6.8.0 as mentioned by Jung-uk Kim in a recent post (thanks!). On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:43 PM, James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb Andrei Kolu wrote: > > On Saturday 23 February 2008 13:23:56 James Butler wrote: > > > Greetings > > > > > > I've just installed 7.0-RC2 on my Thinkpad X31 (ATI Radeon LY RV100 > > > Mobility M6), and added Xorg from packages. When starting X without an > > > xorg.conf, or with an xorg.conf generated by X -configure, I get a > > > strange effect on the screen: It's hard to describe, but it looks like > > > maybe X is drawing the wrong subpixels, as all shapes have strange > > > coloured fringes, and the the X "weave" background consists of white, > > > red and blue pixels instead of just white. The total effect is that > > > the image looks "washed-out" and pixelated; I'm sorry I have no easy > > > way to capture how this looks!! (Also I just noticed that some xft > > > fonts are coming out ~50% bigger with the "ati" driver than with > > > "vesa".... don't know if this is relevant). > > > > > > I have tried all three documented "SubPixelOrder" settings in > > > xorg.conf without effect, and I also tried disabling DRI (for no good > > > reason); currently I am using the "vesa" driver which works perfectly > > > (if slowly). If I have missed anything obvious please let me know. > > > > > > Please find the xorg.conf.new and Xorg.0.log generated by X > > > -configure, along with my dmesg, here: > > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sweetnavelorange/ > > > > > > If anyone has any ideas, then thanks in advance. > > > > > I have similar problem with Intel 945GM graphics on Dell XPS 1210- in KDE > > konsole during compilation I see black pixel leftovers after text scrolling > > up- when I move window behind some other application and back then those > > pixels disappear. > > I think your problem is unrelated, and has to do with drawing rendered > fonts. My issue is with every pixel on the screen, al the time.... I > have tried with little success to take a photo of it, so I'll resort > to ASCII art to try to clarify what I mean..... > > The lovely default X background is a pattern like this (o for black, x > for white): > oooxoooxooox > oxoooxoooxoo > ooxoooxoooxo > xoooxoooxooo > oooxoooxooox > oxoooxoooxoo > > What I see is (adding c for cyan, m for magenta): > oocxoocxoocx > cxoocxoocxoo > ooxmooxmooxm > xmooxmooxmoo > oocxoocxoocx > cxoocxoocxoo > > (from memory). Is this familiar to anyone? > > Thanks, > James > Regards, James
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