On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:34 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > Try this driver build: > > http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-r128/6.8.1/5.fc15/ > > Download that on the live system, install it, and then log out of X and > back in so the server will restart and pick up the new driver. Adam, Thanks for the suggestion, but no joy. I booted the Live CD to runlevel 3, logged in as root, scp'd the new driver from a neighbor system, installed it using 'yum localinstall...', then ran init 5. The same tearing distorts the screen even with the new 6.8.1-5 driver. You said X drivers don't consider PCI revision, only vendor and device ID. At http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=240 I find two devices with Chip Number "Mobility M3 AGP": 0x4C45 Chip Description: Rage Mobility M3 AGP 0x4C46 Chip Number: Mobility M3 AGP Chip Description: 0x4c46 Notes: DRIVER In /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids I found: 4c45 Rage Mobility M3 AGP 4c46 Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x 1002 0155 IBM Thinkpad A22p 1014 0155 IBM Thinkpad A22p 1028 00b1 Latitude C600 Do you suppose the aty128fb.ko kernel driver contains the correct parameter info for one of the device numbers but not the other (e.g. 1002 but not 1014)? The display tearing problem I'm seeing goes back a long time (prior to F7 for sure). Could we have been missing half a loaf all this time? James MacKenzie has experienced the same problem on his A22p. The only solution I've found is the xorg.conf file I attached to my first msg. Before I hacked that together I had to use the VESA driver, which is now abominably slow. A key number in my xorg.conf file is the hsync value found by the gtf utility: 74.52 kHz. That's 501 Hz higher than the default value listed in Xorg.0.log. The difference is blocking a 1600x1200 display. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
