Bug#462582: xserver-xorg-video-ati: regression, size configuration incredibly broken, on bog-standard display size

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:09 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: 
> 
> Just did an upgrade to 1:6.12.5-1 testing (causing a large bunch of
> other xorg stuff to get updated), and directly after having started
> 1:6.12.3-1, the screen is now quite a LOT darker than before
> (in a weird twilight way, no contrast, no brightness, nothing).
> Reverting to 6.12.4-2 (the only one readily available) did not help
> either. And I DON'T think it's a (very) sudden monitor issue
> (the OSD still shows with original colors)
> 
> Obviously I'm not too happy about this state of affairs ;)
> 
> Any ideas? What should I test?

If you're still running the server in depth 16, try 24. (Known but low
priority bug in / related to xserver 1.7)


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