From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 11:52:01 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 E0E7416A400 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641EA13C45B for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so582848fgg.35 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:52:00 -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=k9u9I2uPYM/O4uH/ucZ4nX6KQJhF9BRsE7McHtkOPUY=; b=H5qU+QmIDcNhCvWaqayUu9dhSutECpT1QMWGxGBEzCdKnStjIp3+Vq3TIZMp4AziTH6D7Ou4Rgn42DRLU6+qbnpmeEaCVblJBY8BlYXWLm8PE5AmvskAfr118YiTmdew230cwmhdleQGDimACxp7noDFbUktpma7mdinFhY3W/Y= 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=ZyEZRxROZ+GUQ6vNliCeUjE3K+SwEuK4J3cmY06dpwTWPsB53h/o51H3TC2kiY9P204Hr/lwSGTTKndjz17r2jGE6AVX/Gon/bMeEkzbm3REPk6siEwfwFS0/1jkXY1bN7w4k6DuBh4IRzI2olGCwqx8RbQS03mGegDS4+3dFBM= Received: by 10.86.59.2 with SMTP id h2mr296682fga.63.1203765836806; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.62.1 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:23:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:23:56 +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: 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: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:52:02 -0000 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. -James Butler