On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Shane Reimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Starting a couple weeks ago, whenever gimp loads an image my display becomes
> corrupted.

I'm assuming you updated the driver and that caused the problem?  Does:
Option "ColorTiling" "False"
in the device section of your xorg.conf fix the issue?  If so you are
probably seeing this bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33929
You might try the xserver patch there.

Alex

>
> I can open gimp itself, but the moment gimp tries to "paint" an image on my
> monitor the display becomes "garbled".
>
> This also happens in qucs (the problem happens the moment I load qucs!)
>
> I'm sure this has something to do with the driver.
>
> Currently I have the following git versions installed on ubuntu 10.04:
> xserver-xorg-video-ati
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> xserver-xorg-video-mach64
> xserver-xorg-video-r128
>
> Here is the condensed output of "spci | grep -i pci || lspci":
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon
> 9600]
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600]
> (Secondary)
>
> Kindly,
> Shane
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