Bug#461649: Follow-Up with pictures of black flickering bands

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
Hi, Brice. Thanks for keeping me apprised! The two hosts that had the problem were recycled and I don't have access to them. For our purposes, the bug "does not matter". Thanks again, Stephen Benoit. > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:13:22AM -0400, Stephen Benoit (Linux) w

Bug#461649: Follow-Up with pictures of black flickering bands

2008-06-17 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
Hi, Brice. > Hello Stephen, > Does the bug still occurs with latest -core and -ati from unstable? > Brice The last versions I tried on the Radeon 7000/VE were from April 13, 2008, and the black flickering band and shaking problems were still there. For practical considerations, that week I bough

Bug#461649: Follow-Up with pictures of black flickering bands

2008-03-20 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
Hi, Alex. Thanks for your reply. >> If you can think of any options I could try, including kernel modules >> (buggy intel_agp or radeonfb?), please let me know! > > Does adjusting the DisplayPriority option help (see radeon man page)? > > Some other options to try: > Option "BusType" "PCI" > Op

Bug#461649: Image shakes and shivers when content changes with Radeon RV100 QY (Radeon 7000/VE)

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
Hi, Michel. Things are working better. Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:08 -0500, Stephen Benoit (Linux) wrote: >> >> 1. Tests under xserver-xorg unstable: >> >> At first, I had the shaking/shivering problem under load, but it was >>

Bug#461649: Image shakes and shivers when content changes with Radeon RV100 QY (Radeon 7000/VE)

2008-01-21 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
Brice Goglin wrote: > Stephen Benoit (Linux) wrote: >> I tried the git approach, but the autogen.sh script requires >> xorg-server>=1.2 and libdrm>=2.2 which are more recent than etch. >> >> I did not find any xserver-xorg backports for etch, so I will try >

Bug#461649: Image shakes and shivers when content changes with Radeon RV100 QY (Radeon 7000/VE)

2008-01-20 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
Brice Goglin wrote: > Stephen M. Benoit wrote: ... >> With Xorg 7.1.0-19, my Radeon RV100 QY (Radeon 7000/VE) displays a >> shaky, flickering image whenever there is a change on the screen >> (scrolling, cursor movement, update in gkrellm...). ... > Can you try a more recent xserver-xorg-video-ati?

Bug#443832: fig2dev generates Postscript that is not DSC 2.0

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen Benoit (Linux)
I just hit a similar problem, test the following if it works for you. Printing from xfig (or fig2dev) to postscript generates postscript that is not fully DSC 2.0, or at least, CUPS can't read the DSC information and stops the resulting print job. One fix to demonstrate the problem: (Idea from: