2008/3/5 max bianco <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I had not considered that possibility. It could indeed be a hardware > problem but i don't have any issues when i run without the livna driver. If > i was having a video card problem shouldn't I have general video issues that > don't revolve around the livna driver? I am out of the loop on video driver > issues(something i used to keep up with), what, if any, other driver can i > use? Is the driver offered by livna the open source or proprietary driver? > > Thanks, > > Max Have you run system-config-display and verified that the settings suits your particular display?
