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Comment 41 for bug 272406

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 272406] Re: cannot start gnome X in intrepid (gray screen with horizontal thin flashing black lines)

Thanks for testing it!

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:25:07AM -0700, Victor Van Hee wrote:
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> Tried the nodither package last night with no effect. Oh well -- Thanks.
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> Victor
>
> Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Hi Victor,
> >
> > I've forwarded your bug upstream to
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18163. Would you please
> > subscribe to this bug in case they wish further information or need you
> > to test something? Thanks ahead of time.
> >
> > Also, I notice this chipset is sort of similar to one we recently put a
> > fix in to correct dithering. Just in case that change may have caused a
> > regression for you, would you mind testing the following "nodither"
> > package, which has that fix disabled? If it solves the issue for you,
> > we may need to disable that patch:
> >
> > http://bryceharrington.org/ubuntu/AtiDithering/
> >
> > ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #18163
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18163
> >
> > ** Also affects: xserver-xorg-driver-ati via
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18163
> > Importance: Unknown
> > Status: Unknown
> >
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