Xorg ATI Rage-Mobility Bug (work around)

[doug at safeport.com]

FYI - there is a work around for this. The vesa driver works okay. I just ran
xorgconfig and added Mode and DefaultDepth statements. The driver seems kind of
funky in that the screen is scrambled for a second or so and then seems to work
okay.

Is there a user oriented mailing list for Xorg? I am happy to test a fix for the
ati driver. Is there a end-user mailing list for Xorg? I also have some
questions about the driver option and modeline calculation. Any ideas where
these questions can be asked would be greatly appreciated.

I did not in the end try the development snapshot in XFree86 since using XFree86
seems to then require that all X applications be installed as ports. I figure I
might have KDE done by Christmas :)


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Eric Anholt wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:30, doug at safeport.com wrote:
> > Both Xorg and XFree86 4.4 have this problem. The card works in XFree86 4.3.
> >
> > The problem is reported in Xorg as Bug#: 1109, report 2004-08-17. It has been
> > fixed in XFree86 4.4.99.7, CHANGELOG #133.


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