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** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xorg
  
- There is occasional corruption of the screen when using a Sapphire
- Radeon 4770 card with the open source radeon drivers. The takes the form
- of a "chequered" effect, looking a bit like a chequer board. This is
- most noticeable when the screen goes grey (eg when typing gksudo ..) but
- can also be seen at other times eg in System Preferences , Appearance,
- Theme, the icons for each theme show this. The menus in KeePassX are
- corrupted.
+ There is reproducable corruption of the screen when using a Sapphire
+ Radeon 4770 card with the open source radeon drivers.
  
- The effect does not show when using the fglrx driver when the screen
- goes grey, though the Theme icons do still show this same corruption. An
- attachment shows a screenshot of the grey screen effect.
+ It takes the form of a "chequered" effect, looking a bit like a chequer
+ / checkerboard.
+ 
+ In Gnome, this is most noticeable when the screen goes greyed (eg when
+ typing gksudo ..) but can also be seen at other times eg in the previews
+ shown in System Preferences->Appearance->Theme. The menus in KeePassX
+ are corrupted.
+ 
+ In KDE, this is much more noticeable right away in the the menu and the
+ ublog on the desktop.
+ 
+ When using the fglrx driver the effect does not show when the screen is
+ greyed, though the theme previews do still show the same corruption.
+ 
+  An attachment shows a screenshot of the grey screen effect.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct  2 13:22:54 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=86a4bbc7-fdbc-440c-963e-2b1acd6dfc20 ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
   libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu6
   libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
   xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
   xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
  XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
  dmi.bios.date: 09/02/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
  dmi.bios.version: BX97510J.86A.1487.2007.0902.1724
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: D975XBX
  dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
  dmi.board.version: AAD27094-302
  dmi.chassis.type: 2
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBX97510J.86A.1487.2007.0902.1724:bd09/02/2007:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD975XBX:rvrAAD27094-302:cvn:ct2:cvr:
  fglrx: Not loaded
  system:
   distro:             Ubuntu
   architecture:       x86_64kernel:             2.6.31-11-generic

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screen corruption with Radeon 4770
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440544
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