[SATLUG] ATI Garbage

[Robert Parkhurst]

I'd be interested if this fixes the ATI issue.  I've got an ATI card on
my work laptop (dual boot Vista/Ubuntu 7.10).  Unfortunately I haven't
been able to be in Ubuntu nearly as much as I'd like, but when I have
been I haven't seen that issue (though I've only run a single monitor
setup).


Robert


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 12:01 -0600, Daniel J. Givens wrote:

> Sean Carolan wrote:
> > Recently my ATI video driver has been creating squares of garbage on
> > my monitors.  I have dual displays, and the lower right corner of each
> > display has some blocks over the task switcher.  Quite annoying
> > because I can't see what's underneath the distorted pixels.  I also
> > have a square thing that follows the mouse around.  It temporarily
> > goes away if I jump to a terminal and back, but invariably returns to
> > haunt me.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced distortions like this?  I'm pretty fed up
> > with ATI graphics cards, and strongly recommend that anyone interested
> > in using Linux do not give AMD/ATI a penny.  I never, ever have these
> > problems with my Nvidia card at home.
> 
> On my system at work which has a AIW 9600, I get the same thing. Most of
> the time, it's only on one display, but occasionally, I get it on both.
> It is annoying, but I've gotten to where I don't really notice it much
> these days. You could spend $40 on a cheap Nvidia replacement provided
> you have an AGP or PCIe slot available.

Robert Parkhurst
IT Engineer
Scarab Digital Imaging
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San Antonio, TX 78205
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