[R100] horrible X rendering

[Tom Horsley]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

My display looks like it is being rendered in 4 bit (or maybe even 3 bit) color with the
radeon driver. With the vesa driver it looks fine.

This seems very likely to be an upstream problem, so details can be found over here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15846

This is a new install of

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

The installed radeon driver that demonstrates the problem is:

xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1

[Tom Horsley (tom-horsley)]

Created an attachment (id=16401)
the full X log file

Here is the complete log file from the most recent attempt
to run the radeon driver. This is on a different monitor than
the original screenshots were taken from, but the display is
just as screwed up in 1920x1080 as it was as 1280x1024.

[Tom Horsley (tom-horsley)]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

My display looks like it is being rendered in 4 bit (or maybe even 3 bit) color with the
radeon driver. With the vesa driver it looks fine.

This seems very likely to be an upstream problem, so details can be found over here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15846

This is a new install of

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

The installed radeon driver that demonstrates the problem is:

xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1

[Tom Horsley (tom-horsley)]

After looking at this for a while, I'm wondering if the driver is somehow
enabling the color mapping hardware on the 7200 instead of a truecolor mode?
That would certainly wind up with random data being used for the colormap
and produce silly looking output like I see (just a random thought, I
have no idea if it is really the problem).

[agd5f (agd5f)]

does this option help?

Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" "TRUE"

[Tom Horsley (tom-horsley)]

Nope, same ridiculous colors with or without DefaultTMDSPLL.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automatic notification.]

Hi Tom,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
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If you are the original reporter and can still reproduce the issue on
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  apport-collect 227558

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  ubuntu-bug xorg

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[dino99 (9d9)]

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