Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-s3 package

Causes visual artifacts on S3Virge MX chipset

Bug #91081 reported by lava-head
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xserver-xorg-video-s3 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

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.

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lava-head (glen-lund) wrote :

This problem has been fixed under Feisty. It is now working fine for normal purposes but Realplayer still spawns green blocks when displaying video.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Thanks, closing as fixed. The realplayer problem could be a bug in realplayer itself, unless it's the same with other media players too.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-s3:
status: New → Fix Released
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