Sigh.  I have been meaning to devote more time to this.

I'd be happy to have some help ... frankly if you want to reassign it to 
yourself (or if I need to do it) that would be fine.  I built and ran 
with the version of the radeon module that shipped in Edgy and was able 
to reproduce the problem.  So either this issue should be reproducible 
in Edgy or the issue is (perhaps) in the X server itself (which I 
thought was unlikely).  Sadly my Edgy CD is corrupt and my bug-hunting 
process stalled out at the point where I needed to re-download and burn 
an Edgy ISO.

Here's what I grasp of the technical details - the Gnome resolution 
switcher applet queries X via the RandR extension to find out what modes 
are available.  The radeon module, when building a list of modes 
available via RandR, first adds modes specified in xorg.conf, and then 
proceeds to add VESA standard modes to the list.  It seems to be these 
VESA modes which cause the problem.  My guess, given the visual 
symptoms, is that something with regard to the memory aperture is 
borked, but it's just a guess.

Good luck, let me know if you make some headway or if I can be of some
help.

Matt

Dan Munckton wrote:
> Hi Matthew. You getting anywhere with this? Can I help out?
>

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