radeon driver - Display becomes corrupted with GIMP!

[Shane Reimer]

Thanks Alex.

This is my issue.  According to the bug report this patch has already 
been merged (2011.02.24).  Will the xorg-edgers PPA be posting a new GIT 
build for everyone?

TIA
Shane

On 11-02-27 04:34 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Shane Reimer<shane.reimer at inbox.com>  wrote:
>> Starting a couple weeks ago, whenever gimp loads an image my display becomes
>> corrupted.
>
> I'm assuming you updated the driver and that caused the problem?  Does:
> Option "ColorTiling" "False"
> in the device section of your xorg.conf fix the issue?  If so you are
> probably seeing this bug:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33929
> You might try the xserver patch there.
>
> Alex
>
>>
>> I can open gimp itself, but the moment gimp tries to "paint" an image on my
>> monitor the display becomes "garbled".
>>
>> This also happens in qucs (the problem happens the moment I load qucs!)
>>
>> I'm sure this has something to do with the driver.
>>
>> Currently I have the following git versions installed on ubuntu 10.04:
>> xserver-xorg-video-ati
>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>> xserver-xorg-video-mach64
>> xserver-xorg-video-r128
>>
>> Here is the condensed output of "spci | grep -i pci || lspci":
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon
>> 9600]
>> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600]
>> (Secondary)
>>
>> Kindly,
>> Shane
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