Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-26 Thread James Robertson
Can you try a newer kernel? 3.6 or 3.7? That may help with the modesettings. As for the acceleration, corruption, you might try a newer version of mesa. I cheated a little and tried the latest aptosid kernel linux-image-aptosid-amd64_3.6-12_amd64 - same screen corruption issues. I

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-25 Thread Nix
On 24 Oct 2012, Benjamyn Ward verbalised: There's an ext4 bug floating around. Just watch which kernel you install if you're using the ext4 file system. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/779 This is less problematic than we thought at first. It appears to cause fs damage only if you reboot

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-24 Thread James Robertson
The only other option I was going to try was using a Display port to DVI adapter from the side of my laptop to replace the VGA from the docking station. If I purchase one to try that I'll let you know. I bought a an Active display port adapter for my laptop. That won't even work with

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:41 AM, James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com wrote: The only other option I was going to try was using a Display port to DVI adapter from the side of my laptop to replace the VGA from the docking station. If I purchase one to try that I'll let you know. I bought a

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-24 Thread Benjamyn Ward
There's an ext4 bug floating around. Just watch which kernel you install if you're using the ext4 file system. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/779 ~Benjamyn On 10/24/2012 09:42 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:41 AM, James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com wrote: The only

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-08-15 Thread James Robertson
Update... Setting option Option NoAccel true Has fixed the problem. I haven't noticed any problems having this enabled in the way I use my computer, videos, glxgears etc. all work ok. So I suppose this bug report can be closed if desired. The only other option I was going to try was using a

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-08-08 Thread James Robertson
On 2 August 2012 20:31, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: Thanks. That's not what we generally call 'tearing' but looks like some kind of intermittent display corruption. Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas offhand what could cause that. I did some more testing and it seems as though

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-08-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2012-07-22 at 13:20 +1000, James Robertson wrote: On 21 July 2012 03:45, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: Can you elaborate on what exactly 'tearing and corruption' means? I have created a brief video to show the tearing. It occurs when basically any input occurs such as

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-07-23 Thread James Robertson
On 22 July 2012 13:20, James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com wrote: On 21 July 2012 03:45, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: Can you elaborate on what exactly 'tearing and corruption' means? I have created a brief video to show the tearing. It occurs when basically any input occurs

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-07-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2012-07-19 at 23:43 +1000, James Robertson wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.14.4-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a Lenovo R500 laptop with an [AMD] nee ATI RV620 [Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series] graphics chip I recently obtained 2x AOC monitors

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-07-20 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Don, 2012-07-19 at 23:43 +1000, James Robertson wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.14.4-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a Lenovo R500 laptop with an [AMD] nee ATI RV620 [Mobility Radeon