I am having a weird issue with a couple of new install of 12.3 with Gnome on different hardware. The font and some icons are not displaying properly (look at activities and what is supposed to be the speaker volume icon). I have installed and reinstalled with varying degrees of success/failure. Sometimes on a reboot the problem goes away but reboot again and it is back. Any thoughts.
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On Tue 26 Mar 2013 07:26:03 PM CDT, gdirubbio wrote:
I am having a weird issue with a couple of new install of 12.3 with
Gnome on different hardware. The font and some icons are not displaying
properly (look at activities and what is supposed to be the speaker
volume icon). I have installed and reinstalled with varying degrees of
success/failure. Sometimes on a reboot the problem goes away but reboot
again and it is back. Any thoughts.
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Both machines do have ati cards but different versions. However it seems that changing the antialiasing to rgba fixes the text issue but not the sound icon issue. I know that the proprietary ATI driver has not worked at all in gnome shell with multiple monitor support so that is not an option. If this is a video driver issue I may have to see if there is a newer open source driver version.
Any other ideas would be great.
On Tue 26 Mar 2013 10:16:02 PM CDT, gdirubbio wrote:
malcolmlewis;2541380 Wrote:
> Hi
> What hardware (gfx card) do you see the issues on? All the same screen
> resolution?
>
> If you change the font, or the hinting and antialiasing all via the
> tweak-tool, does this make a difference?
>
Both machines do have ati cards but different versions. However it
seems that changing the antialiasing to rgba fixes the text issue but
not the sound icon issue. I know that the proprietary ATI driver has
not worked at all in gnome shell with multiple monitor support so that
is not an option. If this is a video driver issue I may have to see if
there is a newer open source driver version.
Any other ideas would be great.
Thanks
Greg
Hi
I have a HP laptop with an ATI HD4200 series card, it can drive
external monitors fine (I had one connected via vga and one connected
via HDMI).
I have enabled the glamor acceleration which seems to be working as
well.
What if you change the screen resolution? Have the systems had all
updates applied?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 8:40, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.07
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
Well after a reboot had the same graphics problem with the text even though antialising was set to rgba, set it back to grayscale and text went normal again. However I seen this one a few times where the desktop background is all crazy. Have to reboot until normal. I have never had this issue before opensuse 12.3 http://s21.postimg.org/yoc1osd5j/gnome123_2.png
This machine has a Radeon 5770 and at work I have a Dell Optiplex 990 with a Radeon I think a 3570. I am going to try the ATI Proprietary driver and see what happens, has been a few months since I tried it. Right now I am on the Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER Driver which is the default, not sure what was used in 12.2 as I never check as it worked.
Well it seems to be an issue with the opensource ati driver (Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER Driver) I was able to install the ATI proprietary from an rpm I found on the opensuse.org site (http://lizards.opensuse.org/tag/ati/) and after some tweaking got the driver to work the way I want it to, Now Text and icons seem to be fine now. Hope this holds.
Anyone know where to submit a bug report for this driver?
On Wed 27 Mar 2013 12:16:01 AM CDT, gdirubbio wrote:
Well it seems to be an issue with the opensource ati driver (Gallium 0.4
on AMD JUNIPER Driver) I was able to install the ATI proprietary from an
rpm I found on the opensuse.org site and after some tweaking got the
driver to work the way I want it to, Now Text and icons seem to be fine
now. Hope this holds.
Anyone know where to submit a bug report for this driver?
For the 3570, your stuck with the oss driver, on my HP I had an issue
and upgraded the xorg driver to the latest in the Xorg:X11 repository,
but that was for a flickering screen. YMMV
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 11:48, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
