On 15/1/2010, "Julien Cristau" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:59:22 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Adrian Davey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>> > Version: 1:6.12.4-2
>> > Severity: important
>> >
>> > Version 6.12.4-2 16-bit colour gives a green tint to the screen, slight
>> > fuzziness to the panel and overall very dim display. Tested on M64 with
>> > both LCD panel on laptop and on external VGA LCD Panel, same result.
>> > Changing to the console from X keeps the green dim display, making reading
>> > the text on a black background very hard indeed.
>> >
>> > There is no issue at 24-bit colour, however, at this depth I have don't
>> > have enough video RAM to allow acceleration, making it painfully slow to
>> > use, the main reason for using 16-bit.
>> >
>> > Version 6.12.3-1 16-bit colour works correctly.
>> >
>>
>> I think this is an X server issue. Are you using both driver versions
>> with the same xserver?
>>
>That would be the upgrade from server 1.6.x to 1.7.x then.
>
>Cheers,
>Julien
Sorry I should have said xserver 1.6 plus 6.12.3-1 is fine
xserver 1.7 plus 6.12.4-2 is not good for 16bit colour.
I have not tried 6.12.3-1 on server 1.7 as there are conflicts in
installing.
# dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1%3a6.12.3-1_amd64.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading xserver-xorg-video-radeon from 1:6.12.4-2 to
1:6.12.3-1.
dpkg: regarding xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1%3a6.12.3-1_amd64.deb
containing xserver-xorg-video-radeon:
xserver-xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video-5
xserver-xorg-video-radeon provides xserver-xorg-video-5 and is to be
installed.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1%3a6.12.3-1_amd64.deb
(--install):
conflicting packages - not installing xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Errors were encountered while processing:
xserver-xorg-video-radeon_1%3a6.12.3-1_amd64.deb
Hope this helps,
Adrian
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