Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (364 mails)

[Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

mhopf@xxxxxxx said:
> On Feb 05, 09 20:33:18 +0100, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> > Tried that:
> > * Both the HDMI and VGA displays.
> > * VGA 1920x1080 everthing ok
> > * HDMI gets a desktop size which is larger than the screen. On all edges, 
> > about 2 cm of the desktop is carwed off (the left column of icons and the 
> > bottom panel in KDE). Additionally, th statics is there _but_ not as intense.
> >
> > xrandr and xdpyinfo both attests that both outputs are 1920x1080. It doesn't 
> > scroll as the classic "virtual large desktop" X thing.
> > The text looks stretched and the scroll list in Kterm shows a repeating wavy 
> > stretch pattern.

> Sounds very much like overscan. Many TVs don't display HD in a 1:1 fashion.
> Which is IMHO broken, but hell...

After having added the UseAtome BIOS option I still see this phenomenon.

> > mhopf@xxxxxxx said:
> > No improvement. Tried "shadowfb", "exa", "none", removing the line.
> > With randr (i.e. as above) I get less static. Maybe one horizontal line
> > "blip" 
> > every 2 seconds. Without randr (i.e. with all of the desktop shown on the 
> > monitor), I get 4-7 lines jumping around more or less all the time. My 

> > Ok, sounds different. 
> > Please try
> >   Option "UseAtomBIOS" "true" 
> > and report back.

That did the trick for the statics in the image! 

However, the display size is still too large. (About 2 cm chopped off on all 4 
edges).

/Anders



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