From freedesktop-xorg Sun Nov 13 01:41:32 2011 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:41:32 +0000 To: freedesktop-xorg Subject: Re: Strange problem that might be a hardware malfunction.[Follow up] Message-Id: <4EBF204C.5030304 () acm ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg&m=132114860413061 On 11/10/2011 09:34 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > I had a Radeon 9200 video card which I used for some time. For > apparently no reason, it started showing vertical Magenta stripes that > are in the frame buffer since they also showed up in a screen shot: > > http://on.fb.me/sGUVX3 > > I have a lot of parts sitting around so I tried a Radeon 9250 and > things improved. But still similar problems. > > http://on.fb.me/sGUVX3 > > Look closely at the icons and the scroll bar. I have the similar > Magenta vertical stripes that flicker on when the screen redraws. > Also I have green vertical stripes in photographs and dark colors. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am presuming that it > is hardware but it would be a coincidence if two graphics cards had > similar issues. I tried another mother board and it made no > significant difference. > > I am using the "radeon" driver: xf86-video-ati-6.12.4 and Linux 3.0.4 > with X.Org 1.7.1. All 32 bit. > Thank you for the assistance. I tried the X1650 and it has problems too. I am not facing a simple quandary. Either I have three defective video cards or there is something wrong with the AGP socket on my motherboard. I am going to explore the possibility that the AGP socket is the problem. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: freedesktop-xorg@progressive-comp.com