Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone might have any thoughts on a rather strange thing
that's currently going on with my MacBook Pro screen. I have a 1st gen, 15"
MacBook Pro, with the ATI Radeon X1600. I've previously successfully
installed Fedora Core 6, but wanted to try installing Ubuntu 7.04. I installed
reFit and Bookcamp, and then installed as normal using the
alternate install disk. Everything installed fine, except the Xserver
didn't come up (as mentioned on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookProFeisty/),
so I did a dist-upgrade and then followed the instructions on the
Feisty wiki page for installing and configuring the ATI (fglrx) drivers. Right
after the configuration, I was able to 'startx' and the GUI came up
beautifully, resolution was correct, everything looked great. However,
the next time I rebooted, the screen looked like this
(http://flickr.com/photos/robbyt/537741087/), and remains that way regardless
of whether I boot into Ubuntu or boot into Mac OS X. I then tried
reconfiguring the xserver using sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, trying to
reconfigure once for the open-source ati driver, and once for plain old vesa.
Neither helps the problem.
After that I blew away all the partitions (it was a fresh OS X install anyway)
and reinstalled OS X, but the problem still remains. I've also tried
installing Fedora Core 6, since I know it was able to correctly detect my
monitor correctly before, but this didn't help either.
I have two observations that might help. 1. Everything looks absolutely fine
on an external monitor, so the video card seems unfazed. And 2., all the
white-on-black text has the strange fringe color, except inside the OS X
terminal. There it's perfectly clear and normal. Any ideas or suggestions
would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I can provide any
additional info that might help. Thanks!
Grant
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