I have a hd6970. I was using the stock nouveau drivers and X 1.10. I tried
the drivers directly from ATI's site. They were dog slow, even more glitchy,
and took forever to get working. Hey, at least audio over dvi started
working. Catalyst is truly an abomination. Then I used the the ati drivers
from the fedora repo, and, strangely, they worked a little better, but still
slower than nouveau. Now, in addition to all of the other wacky things, the
top bar in gnome3 is a different color gradient every time i log in. I would
say there's something up with the card except for it's brand new and
everything works flawlessly in windows. another issue came up where none of
the changes to xorg.conf are persistent. Fedora or ati, not sure which one,
decides to overwrite everything on reboot. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love
to give them try just for kicks. I think I'm just going to give up and get a
gtx560. Never had any issues with nvidia in the past and have had nothing
but problems with both sets of radeon cards I use. could It have something
to do with multiple monitor setups?

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Alberto Treviño <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Saturday, September 24, 2011 4:38:24 PM Topher Cullen wrote:
> > This a bit hard to descibe. Frequently I have a problem with ati cards
> > displaying weird things. E.g. all icons in a program turn into blue
> > boxes. Any image on amazon appears half loaded or has random lines
> > running through it or garbbled  Etc etc. The only way to fix it when it
> > happens is to restart which ever program is having issues. Max or min
> > the program, or dragging things over it, doesn't change which icons or
> > images are distorted. It really seems to think thatt's how their
> > supposed to be displayed. It's seems to happen randomly. Anyone else had
> > anything like this happen?
>
> What model of ATI card do you have? What is the source and version of your
> drivers? What version of X are you running?
>
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