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xresprobe package

  1. Bug #127008
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 127008

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: Alternate install of Tribe-4 corrupts video display when installing packages

Here is a deb including the aforementioned patch, could someone test this?

http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/bug127008/xserver-xorg-core-dbg_1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu7~ppa1_i386.deb

Since this occurs during installation, I'm not sure how easy this is going to be to test... Possibly switch to a terminal early in the installer, install the deb, and then continue the installation? If someone knows of a better procedure for testing, please share it here.

The description of the patch is, "Screen size changing should leave FB alone when X is inactive." I'm just making a wild guess that perhaps at some point during installation, one of the packages does a screen size change before X has been made active, which then affects the framebuffer which for this hardware results in the screen corruption described in this bug.