Bug#524280: Same problem on Radeon HD 3200

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Astrid S. de Wijn
<astrid-spammenot at syonax.net> wrote:
> I have the same problem with the on-board graphics card of a
> Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H motherboard.  Lspci output:
>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device d000
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
>        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
>        Memory at fdfe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
>        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
>
> I don't have any more information to add to the extensive test results from
> Jacek Politowski, except perhaps for my pretty generic xorg.conf (see attachment).
> I am using unstable with a stock 2.6.29 kernel.  Downgrading to 6.9.0
> worked for me as well.
>
> I can confirm that the image on the screen with the broken driver is some sort of
> mixup of what the screen looked like just before things broke.  At one point during
> my downgrade things were half fixed and I got almost the entire original image back.
> I could read most of the text in my terminals.  This happened even after a soft reboot.
>
> Please let me know if you need any more details on my hardware cofiguration.
> Unfortunately I am not in a position to reboot this computer a lot right now
> for testing different versions, because it is being used for long simulations.

If you get a chance, can you try any versions between 6.9.0 and 6.12.x
or do a git bisect between 6.9.0 and some some broken release?  Also,
did you do anything else like upgrade the amount of ram in the system?

Alex