I have a laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility-P (1280x1024 max res). It was working just dandy with Mandrake 9.0, but I just updated a ton of packages to the Cooker versions to get a preview of KDE3.1. (It's very nice, BTW) But along the way X was upgraded to 4.2.99 (4.3.0rc1, apparently), and suddenly it had a problem with my Rage Mobility-P. Now whenever I try to use the ati driver, there is an invisible horizontal line about 1/4th of the way down the screen, where the mouse cursor just stops. When I take the mouse cursor down to the bottom of the screen, it wraps around to the top 1/4 of the screen. When I attempt to click on things on the screen, I have to hover over a point vertically about 1/4th of the screen below the object I'm trying to click on.
So in short, the screen that the mouse sees seems to be shifted about 250 pixels down from the actual screen. Another odd thing that happens is the actual picture on the screen is "stretched" by about 3/4ths of an inch (about 1.5cm, maybe about 20 pixels) and the bottom part of the screen image is pushed off the screen. So in icewm I can't even see the taskbar. When I wrap the mouse around to the top of the screen and it hits the top of that "stretched" area, it also gets stretched, pixel by pixel. I had seen this oddness when I booted up Knoppix a couple of months ago and thought it was just something off about Knoppix, but I just booted up a very recent version and it still has this problem. I keep updating XFree86 from Cooker every few days and the problem isn't going away. I've tried Mandrake's latest X configuration tools and the command-line xf86cfg (even that had the problem so I used xf86cfg -textmode -nomodules). So far the only way I've been able to use the card productively is by using the vesa driver. Is this a configuration bug, or a driver bug? Is there anything I can do to fix it? Is there any testing program I can download and run that would help me provide some good debugging info? For anyone that can help, thanks in advance. Please CC me if you reply. Thanks, Kris F. -- Kris Finkenbinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
