Screen misbehaviour

Hi everybody,

I recently installed 10.3 on my brandnew lenovo R60. It includes an ATI
X1400 graphics card.
I installed the original ATI driver fglrx, 3D option checked (working fine).

But there is a little flaw which happens from time to time:
In the lower right corner horizontal dots that start to get a line
appears. After some minutes about 4 lines in total are sitting there
about 2 cm (1 inch) in length. The same picture can appear also around
the cursor (moving with it) but moving away from the current application
(e.g. firefox) removes also the cursor shadow.

A temporary solution is to switch to a terminal (ALT+F1) hit the Return
key and switching back to X (the window seems to be redrawn).

It seems to be a flaw in the ATI driver.

Can anyone give me a hint what to do to get rid of that flaw?


Klaus
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Klaus,

if the screen settings in Sax2 are correct, I'd play with different versions of the ATI driver.

Uwe

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Klaus Krtschil wrote:

> In the lower right corner horizontal dots that start to get a line
> appears. After some minutes about 4 lines in total are sitting there
> about 2 cm (1 inch) in length. The same picture can appear also around
> the cursor (moving with it) but moving away from the current application
> (e.g. firefox) removes also the cursor shadow.
>
> A temporary solution is to switch to a terminal (ALT+F1) hit the Return
> key and switching back to X (the window seems to be redrawn).
>
> It seems to be a flaw in the ATI driver.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint what to do to get rid of that flaw?

Yes, I've seen seen that in a Radeon mobile too, I reverted to an old
version of the driver. Many of the ati drivers versions do not let google
earth work either.
It is just unbelievable that ATI cannot sort out their own drivers. On the
other hand I have not experienced many bad drivers with nvidia cards.

-G-

On 11/08/2007 -G- wrote:
> It is just unbelievable that ATI cannot sort out their own drivers.
> On the other hand I have not experienced many bad drivers with nvidia
> cards.

Seconded.

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld schrieb:
> On 11/08/2007 -G- wrote:
>> It is just unbelievable that ATI cannot sort out their own drivers.
>> On the other hand I have not experienced many bad drivers with nvidia
>> cards.
>
> Seconded.
>
> Uwe
>

Hi,

seems to be gone with the newest version 8.45

Klaus
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Klaus,

good news, thanks for the feedback!

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld schrieb:
> Klaus,
>
> good news, thanks for the feedback!
>
> Uwe
>
Hi,

but now I cannot change anything in YAST (mouse, 3D support). When I try
and click on the Test button nothing happens. Looking with top I can see
a process xmode that cannot be killed (even with -9). It will come back,
only reboot helps.

I looked into xorg.conf and found two Device sections:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "fbdev"
VendorName "VESA"
BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

I did a aticonfig --initial on the previous setup. Does this collide
with the ATI driver?


Thanks
Klaus
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Linux User #54760

Klaus,

I'd start from scratch.
Backup your working xorg.conf, then

sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

Uwe


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Uwe Buckesfeld schrieb:
> Klaus,
>
> I'd start from scratch.
> Backup your working xorg.conf, then
>
> sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
>
> Uwe
>
>
Thanks, that did it. It even recognized my Logitech Gaming mouse (it
didn't before). I wonder how I can get the side buttons to work with
Firefox (previous/next page).

Klaus
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On 02/02/2008 Klaus Krtschil wrote:
> Thanks, that did it. It even recognized my Logitech Gaming mouse (it
> didn't before). I wonder how I can get the side buttons to work with
> Firefox (previous/next page).

Good question for a new thread :-)
Glad I could help.

Uwe

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