[Bug 23385] [R580] Black screen with artifacts after boot

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23385

--- Comment #11 from Ashley Anderson <aganders3 at gmail.com> 2010-04-19 13:04:11 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > I can confirm the bug here, I have also an ATI X1900GT, from Sapphire. I've
> > been receiving this from multiples distributions so it's not a specific bug of
> > Ubuntu.
> 
> I can confirm the same bug with a fully updated (as of yesterday) Arch
> installation running KDE. The vesa driver works as expected, but the radeon
> driver gives a black screen with artifacts. I have a Sapphire X1900 as well.
> Adding the following to the "Device" section in xorg.conf gives a semi-usable
> desktop with windows that don't redraw properly:
> 
> Option "DRI" "off"
> Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

After a recent system update (April 17), this bug appears to be fixed on my
system. I'm not sure exactly what fixed the problem, but the following (pacman)
packages (along with others) were updated:
ati-dri
xf86-video-ati

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