ATI Radeon HD 4530 - Jerky Scrolling

anomex · September 19, 2009, 7:12pm

Hello All,

I have recently installed OpenSUSE 11.1 (64 bit) on my new HP Pavilion DV6-1240SA. There a few bits and pieces not working as hoped though mainly I’m having trouble with the driver for my ATI Radeon HD 4530 graphics card.

I have installed the ATI Proprietary drivers via their website and using the auto-install facility. It appears that the correct resolution has been set etc. though when scrolling through web pages for example, the screen is ‘jerky’.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards,

Paul Smith.

caf4926 · September 19, 2009, 8:02pm

Post result of

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

anomex · September 20, 2009, 8:03pm

Result:

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-09-19T16:16:05+0100.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Layout[all]"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
	Option	    "Clone" "off"
	Option	    "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	InputDevices   "/dev/gpmdata"
	InputDevices   "/dev/input/mice"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
	FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
	Option	    "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard[0]"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "Protocol" "Standard"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse[1]"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
	Option	    "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
	Option	    "InputFashion" "Mouse"
	Option	    "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
	Option	    "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
	Option	    "SHMConfig" "on"
	Option	    "Vendor" "Sysp"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse[3]"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
	Option	    "Vendor" "Sysp"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
	Identifier     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
	VendorName   "Unknown"
	ModelName    "Unknown"
	UseModes     "Modes[0]"
	DisplaySize  344	193
	HorizSync    30.0 - 40.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen[0]"
	Device     "Device[0]"
	Monitor    "Monitor[0]"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "default"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        "video"
	Mode         0660
EndSection

Thanks ‘caf4926’.

caf4926 · September 20, 2009, 8:30pm

Go to Yast - Hardware - Graphics and Monitor and set up in there.

If you use a LCD probably the best monitor option is the generic -->LCD and resolution for your screen

Currently your xorg file is showing you still using vesa:

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

Also check here for help
ATI - openSUSE

anomex · September 21, 2009, 7:01pm

Hello,

Having started from scratch I followed the OpenSUSE ATI guide that you told me about and all is working well. Thanks again for your help!

Regards,

Paul.

caf4926 · September 21, 2009, 7:20pm

OK Well done!