Recently tried installing FC3. However, right quarter of monitor not being used and bottom quarter distorted, making it impossible to view/navigate that portion of screen. Mouse-click on bottom quarter produced what appeared to be an inch and a half high cursor. Navigating by keyboard and by guess, able to proceed with installation of FC3. On reboot, screen corruption persists. Changing hardware settings to Generic LCD 1024-768 with 60Hz refresh rate and rebooting did not solve problem. Installation media (tried two sets from different sources) checked out fine. Problem occurs every time I've tried to install FC3. My system specs: HP Pavilion Notebook PC, smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3, Insyde Software SM-BIOS For VT8703 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.40GHz, slot: PGA478, size: 1400MHz, capacity: 1400MHz, clock: 1199MHz, capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm L1 cache = size: 8KB capacity: 32KB capabilities: burst pipeline-burst internal write-back L2 cache = size: 512KB capacity: 512KB capabilities: burst pipeline-burst external write-back unified P4M266 Host Bridge = vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. clock: 33MHz resources: iomemory:a0000000-a3ffffff PCI bridge = product: VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. clock: 66MHz capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list display description: VGA compatible controller = product: VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] vendor: S3 Inc. size: 128MB clock: 66MHz capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list resources: iomemory:e0000000-e007ffff iomemory:90000000-97ffffff irq:11 description: Multimedia audio controller = product: VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. clock: 33MHz capabilities: cap_list configuration: driver=VIA 82xx Audio resources: ioport:e100-e1ff irq:9
correctness problems aren't blockers. it's unclear what version of Xorg you are using. it would be helpful if you could confirm that the problem still occurs with CVS or a 6.8.99 snapshot.
reporter: need more information on you before we can resolve this bug. suspect this was a symptom of gcc miscompiling libvgahw on some fedora versions.
Similar problem here. Linux kernel 2.6.15, GCC 3.3.4, Glibc 2.3.4 KM2M motherboard (Athlon XP) ProSavage8 card. In Xorg 6.8.2, most resolutions work OK. However, 1024x768 @ 44.9 has a 4-pixel missing column at the right edge (the problem seems to be corrected with "UseBIOS" "True", but not supported well by my old monitor). In 6.9.0, 1024x768 @ 44.9 the screen appears totally scrambled (independently of any modules I load). Other modes seem to work ok, but are unsupported by old monitors.
Whats the status using a current version of xorg (7.1)?
I have about same problem running gentoo's latest xorg-7 and 7.1 and latest savage drivers from gentoo portage. see: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147234
Is this still a problem? The gentoo bug was closed as WORKSFORME.
We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
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