Re: Video distortion

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> I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna) because
> it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have time to deal
> with the problem then so its been on the back burner for awhile now. Just
> yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have changed. The
> difference
> is now I would like/ want to use 3d acceleration. The distortion appears
> on
> the bottom of the desktop. The top of my screen is reappearing over the
> bottom 2 or 3 inches of the screen. The computer remains usable but some
> programs are affected more than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I
> would
> like the distortion to go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna
> drivers with other Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than
> this one.
> My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification
> that
> can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this problem?
> can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of researching a
> solution using google, bugzilla, and this list.  Any and all responses
> welcome.

This sounds more like a hardware failure about to happen.

I really wish there was a memtest86 for video cards.


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