[Bug 15846] New: display horribly rendered with radeon 7200 card on ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

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           Summary: display horribly rendered with radeon 7200 card on
                    ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.3
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: tomhorsley at adelphia.net
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


On my brand new ubuntu 8.04 install, the screen contents displayed
by the radeon driver are horrible. It looks somewhat as if it has
decided to render things in 4 bit color. Weirdly, the actual contents
of the framebuffer appear normal. If I take a screenshot and transfer
it to a system with a working display, all appears well.

The (possibly) relevant packages on the system are:

xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.3+10ubuntu10
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1

This is a old radeon 7200 card, but it is not a hardware problem. The
vesa driver renders things quite well (but, of course, 3D is not very
speedy :-).

http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/ubuntu.png is a screen shot (showing
the correctly rendered screen buffer while running with radeon driver).

http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/ubuntu2.png is a photograph I took
of the actual rendering of the screen with the radeon driver. Not only
are the colors wacko, but the text is extremely fuzzy (and not merely
due to being a photograph).

If I switch to the vesa driver, the screen looks like the 1st image
above, so the card is clearly capable of working correctly.

Some selected bits from log file:

X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9)
Current Operating System: Linux grommit 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10
13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 15 April 2008  05:26:17PM

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200] rev 0, Mem
@ 0xd0000000/27, 0xd9000000/19, I/O @ 0x9000/8


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