I’ve been experiencing extremely annoying graphical glitches. I have the open source driver and works fine other then these annyoing lines that appera when ever i drg my mouse over the panels. It’s even starting to effect my usage in applications.
Hello, I see this is your first post. Welcome here.
But please take into account that we are your fellow users and thus mere normal not clairvoyantr people. 
Thus can you please injform us about the version of openSUSE you use. And I guess you use a desktop environment. Please inform us which one (Gnome, KDE, …).
I use opensuse 12.3 with KDE
Do you have special desktop effects enabled ? If so, and if you disable special desktop effects, do you see the same behavour ?
You could also try disabling “dri”. I think that can be done by an edit to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf file, changing it to be something like this:
# Having multiple "Device" sections is known to be problematic. Make
# sure you don't have in use another one laying around e.g. in another
# xorg.conf.d file or even a generic xorg.conf file. More details can
# be found in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32430.
#
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
#
Driver "radeon"
#
# ## Required magic for radeon/radeonhd drivers; output name
# ## (here: "DVI-0") can be figured out via 'xrandr -q'
# #Option "monitor-DVI-0" "Default Monitor"
Option "NoAccel" "True"
#
EndSection
reboot and test.
Note I removed the comment flag ( # ) from many lines.
Well i figured it out. This is one a laptop, so i turned off the main screen and used an external monitor. When ever i disable the screen however, the glitching starts.
Is there any solution to this, i want to save the back light’s life.
I note :
… and the result was ?
Thanks, it works perfectly. Sorry i didn’t see your post earlier, i was in a rush.
wait… is it just me or does this make the desktop slower?
after having applied that change, are you still using the Radeon driver ?
open the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and copy the contents and paste the contents to SUSE Paste. Change ‘delete after’ to 1-year, and then press ‘create’. It will give you a web site address. Post it here so we can read any error messages in that log file.
Oh and apparently I’m still using the Radeon driver, should i uninstall it? If so, how?
No, you should not remove it. The radeon graphic driver is the best you can do with openSUSE-12.3 and the X1400 AMD hardware.
On Thu 18 Apr 2013 09:56:01 PM CDT, oldcpu wrote:
bulletfreak;2548912 Wrote:
>
> Oh and apparently I’m still using the Radeon driver, should i
> uninstall it? If so, how?
>
No, you should not remove it. The radeon graphic driver is the best you
can do with openSUSE-12.3 and the X1400 AMD hardware.
Hi
I got rid of some issues on my HP by upgrading to the 7.1.0
xf86-video-ati driver from the Xorg:X11 repository, but I didn’t disable
acceleration but also added glamor acceleration, not sure how this
would go on a X1400 as I have a Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series card.
You would need to re-enable the accelaration from the earlier post and
then create a file as indicated below.
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 2:35, 4 users, load average: 0.29, 0.11, 0.13
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale
I’m tempted to try this, however it may not work, since mine falls under the Legacy driver category.:\
On Thu 18 Apr 2013 11:36:02 PM CDT, bulletfreak wrote:
I’m tempted to try this, however it may not work, since mine falls
under the Legacy driver category.:\
Hi
Yes, the HD 4200 series is also a legacy device 
Update the driver first, then check, then add the glamor part.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 3:48, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.14
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale
how do i update the driver?
Hi
Grab the xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.[your_arch].rpm, where your-arch is i586 or x86_64;
Index of /repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.3
Then install via zypper;
zypper in xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.[your_arch].rpm
When ever i try i get this
bulletfreak@linux-r0v3:~> zypper in xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i686.rpm
Root privileges are required for installing or uninstalling packages.
bulletfreak@linux-r0v3:~> sudo su
root’s password:
linux-r0v3:/home/bulletfreak # cd Documents
linux-r0v3:/home/bulletfreak/Documents # zypper in xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586.rpmLoading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Resolving package dependencies…
Problem: nothing provides X11_ABI_VIDEODRV = 14.1 needed by xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586
Solution 1: do not install xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586
Solution 2: break xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c):
On Fri 19 Apr 2013 12:26:01 PM CDT, bulletfreak wrote:
malcolmlewis;2549046 Wrote:
> Hi
> Grab the xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.[your_arch].rpm, where your-arch is
> i586 or x86_64;
> ‘Index of /repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.3’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.3/)
>
> Then install via zypper;
> >
Code:> >
> zypper in xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.[your_arch].rpm
>> >
When ever i try i get this
Code:
bulletfreak@linux-r0v3:~> zypper in xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i686.rpm
Root privileges are required for installing or uninstalling packages.
bulletfreak@linux-r0v3:~> sudo su
root’s password:
linux-r0v3:/home/bulletfreak # cd Documents
linux-r0v3:/home/bulletfreak/Documents # zypper in
xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586.rpmLoading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Resolving package dependencies…
Problem: nothing provides X11_ABI_VIDEODRV = 14.1 needed by
xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586
Solution 1: do not install xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586
Solution 2: break xf86-video-ati-7.1.0-30.3.i586 by ignoring some of
its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c):
Code:
Hi
Your on openSUSE 12.3? Also use su - not just su.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 16:37, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale
yes I’m on 12.3