On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Michal Suchanek<hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: > 2009/8/13 Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com>: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Michal Suchanek<hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >>> 2009/8/11 Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com>: >>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Michal Suchanek<hramr...@centrum.cz> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.12.2-3 Severity: minor >>>>> File: video-radeon In a two screen setup wnenever I move the mouse cursor >>>>> between screens pieces of horizontal white lines appear momentarily at >>>>> random on the right edge of the primary screen. The secondary screen is >>>>> right of the primary and rotated. I suspect it is specific to this >>>>> hardware because the lines are quite easily noticed with light web page >>>>> background and dark scrollbar in Firefox - it seems the web page is >>>>> bleeding into the scrollbar. I was unable to reproduce this in a terminal >>>>> or on the smaller screen so it might be also specific to the way Firefox >>>>> redraws its window. Yes, there is no reason to redraw but like it would >>>>> stop Mozilla products from redrawing. I did not notice this issue with >>>>> Radeon X550 card and slightly older X server - had to restart it when >>>>> replacing the card. >>>> >>>> Can you try xf86-video-ati from git master? This sounds like a >>>> display watermark issue. >>> >>> Same results with yesterday's git master. >>> >>> The flashing lines occurs on the (physical) right of both screens >>> while Firefox is redrawing, especially while loading a web page. On >>> the smaller screen the right side is the logical top which typically >>> contains some menus or toolbars so the effect is not so easily >>> noticed. >>> >>> It happens even when Firefox is not mapped (ie if I restart Firefox >>> which causes page loading and switch to a different desktop the lines >>> appear on the visible desktop. >>> >> >> Does >> Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH" >> in the device section of your config help? Also, if you have a large >> virtual setting in your config: >> Virtual 2304 2304 >> reducing that might as help as well if you don't need all of it. >> And finally, you might try disabling tiling: >> Option "ColorTiling" "FALSE" >> > > Sorry, I did not install all the packages that were built out of the new > source. > > I re-checked because I saw that the radeon module version is still > 6.12.2 in X log. > > Installing the new radeon package resolved the problem.
excellent! > > It is true that I technically do not need that large virtual but this > is the smallest that is going to work with a 1280x1024 and a 1024x768 > display for sure. The resolution I use when the screen is set up > properly is 2048x1024 but I must get there somehow, and smaller > virtual might make that harder. No problem if you need the larger virtual size. Just something to try. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
