Latitude D505, BIOS A11

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:30:59AM +0100, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> Hi,
> At work I've got Latitude D505 with FC6.
> After upgrading BIOS to A11 version there's a problem with LCD display on 
> Linux. In graphical mode on the top of the screen there's a horizontal stripe 
> (7mm height) spreading across the whole screen. It is mostly green, but 
> generally shows some "garbage".
> And the "normal" image is shifted down this 7mm.
> 
> Downgrade to A09 BIOS solves this problem.

Do you have Intel Graphics? Which Linux distribution/version are you using?

If Intel, have you tried the modesetting branch of xorg? It looks like Fedora 7 will have this, so it might take care of this problem. Otherwise, you can download and try it out to see if it works. Can you posts your /var/log/Xorg.0.log from both the working and non-working BIOS?

In the past, I have seen something similar on my D500 laptop, but only when I used the Fn-F8 key to try to switch between LCD and CRT, and only on older versions of X.

Thanks,
Michael