Hello Thanks in advance to the people who gave me an answer. I'm very sorry that I didn't include the logs in my previous posting, I wrote it from my job where I don't have access to it. A short summary of my previous posting:
> I'm running Debian unstable on a Sony Vaio GR316MP-Notebook. > I was able to set up XFree as delivered on unstable to work correctly > for the ATI Radeon 7500 and the Vaio's LCD with 1600x1200 pixels. > Last friday (8th of November), I upgraded via apt-get update / apt-get > upgrade and since then my XServer is broken, I only see diagonal > lines. Mouse seems still to work, also I'm able to login via gdm > (I see the colors of my gnome-desktop-wallpaper), but its all displayed > as those diagonal lines. I thought this would probably have to do > with horiz/vert refresh and I fixed that with no effect. Also, replacing > the XFree86Config with the original one didn't work around. > Have there been some changes in the X-server, especially the ATI > driver last week which can cause this? I have a few updates to this: Some people asked me to include logfiles. I don't put'em in the mail due to size but put it on www.guerk.li/linux/xfree.tar.gz. The tarball contains XF86Config-4, XFree86.0.log, .xsession-errors and xfree-diag.txt which contains the output of dpkg -L for xfree. Very interesting is that the mouse works fine and doesn't move in the diagonal stripes in which the rest of the screen is displayed. So I think it can't have to do with refresh-rates or something like that - the mouse should also be part of the stripped output - am I wrong? Another thing I saw in the XServer-log in /var/log/messages is that there seems to be a problem with the drm (what is that?). I googled around a little bit and found that this could be an issue with a module of the kernel - is that possible? I tried to rebuild the kernel (I don't have any modules, everything built-in) but it didn't help. Should I build something as module or am I completly wrong? I hope that someone can help me with those added informations, thanks in advance! Pascal Mainini
