From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 07:43:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAA11065679 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EBF13C45B for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:43:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1999559fgg.35 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:43:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=O9aiQx5vT78W/Fwlm8leSkDRV7yJWWjMV8xcDcQCfm4=; b=E0G/Xa2K75+yRgzUopL83+lnsCf19y9+XUIr+ccgGlGIYb4r6p1C6GZNXzaJYAhVLgcWWm6Oq1WYh6PsdrRlofErVG/bsVEXyNUyKov09XZRHHWGaZqP8xp29ivv1Z8u8AHQH+NvZK8LeaYh2h6PCE/C7h73NG0Dlj6RwTf3xZU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=o0n5X75oCnI8pCju+tFfFlOupO2IokzQGow3OUAGrVL19qhEsS6ZNPmxK5YzXYeYEVxZzdckzaduajfUDujd4Jfzq7YS4GW4IJqgFVrnW41sBoZm6vo5/7TBa9GSFZ6zVYfffJKK2yE6cGeIChTBCd+vVis809sRlspylYtTPrI= Received: by 10.86.54.3 with SMTP id c3mr5673048fga.18.1204098207124; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:43:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.62.1 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:43:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:43:27 +1300 From: "James Butler" To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Problem (subpixel issue?) with ATI M6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:43:29 -0000 On Mon, 25 Feb Andrei Kolu wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2008 13:23:56 James Butler wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I've just installed 7.0-RC2 on my Thinkpad X31 (ATI Radeon LY RV100 > > Mobility M6), and added Xorg from packages. When starting X without an > > xorg.conf, or with an xorg.conf generated by X -configure, I get a > > strange effect on the screen: It's hard to describe, but it looks like > > maybe X is drawing the wrong subpixels, as all shapes have strange > > coloured fringes, and the the X "weave" background consists of white, > > red and blue pixels instead of just white. The total effect is that > > the image looks "washed-out" and pixelated; I'm sorry I have no easy > > way to capture how this looks!! (Also I just noticed that some xft > > fonts are coming out ~50% bigger with the "ati" driver than with > > "vesa".... don't know if this is relevant). > > > > I have tried all three documented "SubPixelOrder" settings in > > xorg.conf without effect, and I also tried disabling DRI (for no good > > reason); currently I am using the "vesa" driver which works perfectly > > (if slowly). If I have missed anything obvious please let me know. > > > > Please find the xorg.conf.new and Xorg.0.log generated by X > > -configure, along with my dmesg, here: > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sweetnavelorange/ > > > > If anyone has any ideas, then thanks in advance. > > > I have similar problem with Intel 945GM graphics on Dell XPS 1210- in KDE > konsole during compilation I see black pixel leftovers after text scrolling > up- when I move window behind some other application and back then those > pixels disappear. I think your problem is unrelated, and has to do with drawing rendered fonts. My issue is with every pixel on the screen, al the time.... I have tried with little success to take a photo of it, so I'll resort to ASCII art to try to clarify what I mean..... The lovely default X background is a pattern like this (o for black, x for white): oooxoooxooox oxoooxoooxoo ooxoooxoooxo xoooxoooxooo oooxoooxooox oxoooxoooxoo What I see is (adding c for cyan, m for magenta): oocxoocxoocx cxoocxoocxoo ooxmooxmooxm xmooxmooxmoo oocxoocxoocx cxoocxoocxoo (from memory). Is this familiar to anyone? Thanks, James