Strange image effect & modesetting support for HD4250?

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of
> fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers.  xf86-video-nouveau didn't
> have the same problem.  Now I've switched to an ATI video card and
> unfortunately I have the same problem with xf86-video-ati.  Does
> anyone know how to fix this?
>
> I tried to enable the new modesetting radeon driver in the kernel to
> see if that would help but it doesn't work with my HD4250 card yet.
> Would the new modesetting driver help, and if so, when might it be
> compatible with the HD4250?
>
> Here's a photo of the effect around the mouse cursor:
>
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/804/cursor.jpg

Please file a bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org) and attach your xorg
log and config and dmesg output.

Alex