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title="NEW - Screen looks strange"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99351">99351</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Screen looks strange
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<th>Product</th>
<td>xorg
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86 (IA32)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>minor
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Driver/openchrome
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>openchrome-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>gajdipajti@gmail.com
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=128867" name="attach_128867" title="1) What I see.">attachment 128867</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=128867&action=edit" title="1) What I see.">[details]</a></span>
1) What I see.
Dear Developers,
I am trying to bring my old laptop (Fujistu Siemens Amilo L7320) back to life.
It has a Via Unichrome GPU (I think P4M800). I hope you can give me some
advice, how I can solve this problem.
My problem is with the display (see attached picture). It looks like it has a
strange layer of a static color noise. The pattern only changes a bit between
reboots and if I maximize/minimize an application (see second attached
picture). (On FreeBSD 10.x it even got stanger, I saw a Windows XP logo on this
"noise layer".) With the VESA driver, I don't have this issue.
With XP and Ubuntu 10.04 I don't have this issue. I think from Xubuntu 12.04 to
16.04 the VESA driver was used on my laptop, so I don't know when it went
wrong.
Now I tried FreeBSD 10.2 and 10.3 with the unichrome driver, and Lubuntu 17.04
(to test unichrome v0.5.0) but I got the same results for each of them. This
screen issue. If I switch to VESA, this layer disappears.
I included my current xorg.conf, which I wrote to enable openchrome driver on
17.04 and correct the screen resolution for the laptop.
(I had to add some extra modules, because X failed to start. The problem in
Xorg.0.log was "undefined symbol:" like shadowremove, vgahwfreehwrec, ... These
were not loaded automatically. I also tested some additional options suggested
by forums and the man page, but they are now commented out.)
I included my latest Xorg.0.log also.
Can you give me some advice what to try? Or how to debug this problem?
I will test the machine with Lubuntu 12,04, 14.04 and 16,04. Maybe I can narrow
down which versions are working and which aren't and give a follow-up.
Thank you for reviving the the openchrome project.
Regards, Thomas</pre>
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