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  • #11
    Originally posted by racecar56 View Post
    Not for me on the ATI Radeon 2400 Pro.
    Did you make sure your X server wasn't running when doing so?
    I (and many others I believe) have had the black/grey/white refresh issue since the new 2D accel was turned on by default in 10.6.
    HD4670 PCIe

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    • #12
      Originally posted by PsynoKhi0 View Post
      Did you make sure your X server wasn't running when doing so?
      I (and many others I believe) have had the black/grey/white refresh issue since the new 2D accel was turned on by default in 10.6.
      HD4670 PCIe
      Now it's totally freaking out and it makes the video card stop providing signal to the monitor.

      Code:
      Section "ServerLayout"
      	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
      	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
      EndSection
      
      Section "Module"
      EndSection
      
      Section "Monitor"
      	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
      	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
      	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
      	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
      EndSection
      
      Section "Device"
      	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
      	Driver      "fglrx"
      	Option	    "no_accel" "on"
      	BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
      EndSection
      
      Section "Screen"
      	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
      	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
      	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
      	DefaultDepth     24
      	SubSection "Display"
      		Viewport   0 0
      		Depth     24
      	EndSubSection
      EndSection
      I have onboard video on this motherboard that could be interfering with the video card.

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      • #13
        I have the same problem with an Ati HD3750 card.

        kernel 2.6.34-gentoo-r6
        xorg-server 1.7.7-r1
        ati-drivers 10.7 and 10.8

        I don't know about the previous diver versions, because I was not able to start X for a couple of versions before the mentioned ones.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by bridgman View Post
          Does forcing use of the older XAA code paths make the problem go away ?
          How can we force the old XAA code?

          It looks like a wired refresh problem. It usually fixes the balck areas if I move another program over the current one, or try to make a screenshot. In firefox usually the buttons (stop, refresh, etc) become black and sometimes the whole web page, sometimes only different parts of the page. It completely random and super annoying.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by ProTech View Post
            How can we force the old XAA code?
            I think you need to do this (all as root):

            Make sure X is stopped first! So boot into runlevel 3 or do init 3 from a terminal:
            # init 3

            # aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE

            Then restart X by rebooting into default graphical environment or from a terminal do:

            # init 5

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            • #16
              init changes do nothing on pure Debian/Ubuntu, it works on Kanotix, informer SuSE/RedHat worked that way too, no idea if it still does. Usually you can do

              /etc/init.d/{g,k,x}dm stop

              or for Fedora

              stop prefdm

              Replace stop by start to start it again.

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              • #17
                FYI I was using SLiM on the Radeon HD 2400 Pro desktop. It has stopping problems, and whenever that happens, I just keep throwing signals until it goes away. I made sure X and SLiM weren't running, and they weren't.

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by bridgman View Post
                  Does forcing use of the older XAA code paths make the problem go away ?
                  For me, the problem goes away forcing XAA.

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                  • #19
                    Forcing the old XAA code solved the problem for me too.

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