max bianco wrote:
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Steven Stern
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max bianco 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.
>
>
> Max
>
Have you tried the latest drivers directly from ATI?
No i had not but i am going to. The livna driver is just the ATI
driver repackaged isn't it? I didn't think there was a substantial
difference between the two.
Thanks,
Max
the livna driver is the same driver, properly setup so it doesnt
overwrite other important files. The ATI .run file will cream your xorg
setup. Use the livna drivers.
Here is good advice :
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01565.html
