Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg
If you do a standard Ubuntu Edgy install on a machine that has a S3Virge MX card fitted you will get visual faults on some images (possibly those with transparency or shadow effects?) with strange colour production, vertical lines, dark strips or rectangular blocks of colour. I have put some snapshots up on my forum query about this issue here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=379174. The same visual artifacts are present on this chip when booting from a knoppix 5.01 live CD but are not observed when using DSL 0.32 or Mandrake Move 2007 or Windows 98SE. My conclusion is that sometime in the modern debian-based development chain the xorg configuration for this chip was broken and no longer works properly. My xorg log has no errors (2 warnings) and trying every possible xorg.conf setting makes no difference to the observed corruptions. ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Causes visual artifacts on S3Virge MX chipset https://launchpad.net/bugs/91081 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
