<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Steven Stern <<a href="mailto:subscribed-lists@sterndata.com">subscribed-lists@sterndata.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">max bianco wrote:<br>
> I had previously installed and removed the ati driver (from livna)<br>
> because it was causing some distortion on my desktop. I did not have<br>
> time to deal with the problem then so its been on the back burner for<br>
> awhile now. Just yesterday i reinstalled but nothing appears to have<br>
> changed. The difference is now I would like/ want to use 3d<br>
> acceleration. The distortion appears on the bottom of the desktop. The<br>
> top of my screen is reappearing over the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the<br>
> screen. The computer remains usable but some programs are affected more<br>
> than others by this phenomenon. Obviously I would like the distortion to<br>
> go away. I haven't seen this issue using the livna drivers with other<br>
> Fedora boxes but those have different video cards than this one.<br>
> My video card is an ATI Radeon X1800 256MB. Is there some modification<br>
> that can be made to xorg.conf that will fix this? Has anyone seen this<br>
> problem? can anyone point me to a solution? I am in the process of<br>
> researching a solution using google, bugzilla, and this list. Any and<br>
> all responses welcome.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Max<br>
><br>
</div></div>Have you tried the latest drivers directly from ATI?<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html" target="_blank"></a></blockquote><div><br>No i had not but i am going to. The livna driver is just the ATI driver repackaged isn't it? I didn't think there was a substantial difference between the two. <br>
<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Max<br></div></div><br>