Bug#348082: xserver-xorg: [ati/radeon] pinkness and interference pattern on Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] rev 1 and TMDS-connected Samsung SyncMaster 213T

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Branden Robinson <branden at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:20:45AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Branden Robinson <branden at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Unfortunately it looks like things have not improved for me, but gotten
>> > worse.  Now:
>> >
>> > 1) My detected screen resolution is 1280x768, which is not only too small,
>> > but the wrong aspect ratio for my 4:3 monitor;
>> > 2) the xrandr tricks that worked around this problem no longer help;
>> > 3) in fact, they make the problem worse by throwing the display into an
>> > illegible mess;
>> > 4) which I can "recover" from by VT switching to a console and back.
>> > 5) But I'm still left with the weird interference pattern,
>> > 6) ...and the byteswapped cursor.
>> >
>>
>> Please remove the connector table option from your xorg.conf.
>
> Thanks, Alex!  This helped a lot.  Problems 1), 2), and 3) above are gone.
> 4) is no longer applicable; 5) and 6) remain.
>
> In short, I'm now back to the original #348082 status quo, with the added
> benefit of not having to use the ConnectorTable option as part of the
> workaround.  Also, my monitor now detects as DVI-0, and is not located at
> DVI-1 as before.

Does switching to the other DVI port help?

Alex