Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:23:56 +1300 From: "James Butler" <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Problem (subpixel issue?) with ATI M6 Message-ID: <f0dd9eb90802230323u10cb143eo123c9852dcaa74b3@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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