Sunblade100 Red Dots persist

[jim watson <jim@amarooas.com.au>]

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Emanuele Rocca wrote:
>  What about the "red dots" issue? Is that already known upstream?
>   
>
> I don't know about this one, my blade 2k is not affected.
>
> Jim, could you please try the last rc kernel (2.6.22-rc7) and send a
> report to sparclinux@vger.kernel.org if the bug is still present?
>
> Thanks.
> ciao,
>     ema
>
>   
I built 2.6.22-rc7 on my Sunblade100 debian/unstable and find the red 
dots issue is still there.

A few red dots will be seen on any window opened on the desktop. If the 
window is dragged around  a few times then more dots accumulate mostly 
along a few vertical lines near each side of the window. Some dots are 
seen on the window decorations and sometime a few are just outside the 
window borders but move with the window. This affects any window, but it 
is easier to see in a black terminal window.

The dots remain fixed relative to the moving window. There is also a 
flickering of vertical black broken lines near the physical centre of 
the LCD screen when a desktop window is moved.

The dots go away if the window is resized, and re-appear when it is moved.
 
A related problem is also seen in a plain console (Ctrl-Alt-F2) where a 
few white dots will be displaced horizontally from some characters and 
are displayed further to the right. 

Please see the attached screenshot.

This issue can be avoided by booting with video=atyfb:off

thanks

jim


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