On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 16:23:55 -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 1:6.13.0-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > On June 13th I upgraded my "squeeze" system and got new kernel > and new version of xserver-xorg-video-radeon. After the reboot > my VGA monitor got really bright. I use a monitor attached to > my laptop's VGA output, extending laptop screen. > > My video card is a RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. > > Searching around I found out bug reports at Freedesktop and > Launchpad: > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27478 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/548709 > > > I tried the recommendation of comment 15 on bug 27478 and it > indeed seem to fix the problem, the command is below. > > radeontool regset DAC_MACRO_CNTL 0x00000808 > > > I didn't saw something similar on Debian BTS and the bug seems > rather new (from April/May) but already fixed upstream. I hope > this works as a form of documentation for other users (and that > it could get patched for squeeze). > The patches from upstream bug 27478 were included in 2.6.33.3 as far as I can tell, so they're in debian kernel 2.6.32-12. Cheers, Julien
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