> 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.
