Blinking screens when dual with AMD fglrx

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Hi there guys.

I have tried the fglrx drivers on openSUSE 12.3 in a way to take advantage of the AMD gpu (RadeonHD 6770M). The installation was through the geeko repo without errors and/or warnings (http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/ati/openSUSE_12.3).

After rebooting the first impression I have is that the amd control panel is more simple and maybe because it doesn’t have display management options, therefore I tried using the KDE screen preferences to extend my desktop and here comes the problem. Once I click on “apply” my monitor and my laptop screen start to blink. It actually shows the extended desktop.

After this I tried a new configuration using suggested settings which didn’t make any difference:

amdconfig --initial -f
amdconfig --set-pcs-str="DDX,EnableRandR12,FALSE"

What would you suggest me to try guys?

By the way I´ve got a two GPUs HP dv6 (Intel or AMD).

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On Tue 19 Mar 2013 02:16:01 PM CDT, faco84 wrote:

Hi there guys.

I have tried the fglrx drivers on openSUSE 12.3 in a way to take
advantage of the AMD gpu (RadeonHD 6770M). The installation was through
the geeko repo without errors and/or warnings
(http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/ati/openSUSE_12.3).

After rebooting the first impression I have is that the amd control
panel is more simple and maybe because it doesn’t have display
management options, therefore I tried using the KDE screen preferences
to extend my desktop and here comes the problem. Once I click on “apply”
my monitor and my laptop screen start to blink. It actually shows the
extended desktop.

After this I tried a new configuration using suggested settings which
didn’t make any difference:

Code:

amdconfig --initial -f
amdconfig --set-pcs-str=“DDX,EnableRandR12,FALSE”

What would you suggest my to try guys?

By the way I´ve got a two GPUs HP dv6 (Intel or AMD).

Hi
Maybe it’s the same issue (older ATI card on a HP) I had;
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799117

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Not sure, in my case you see the desktop in dual with an intermittent blink which seems to happen on every desktop (video) “event”.

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do we need to do this? https://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/03/17/opensuse-12-3-12-2-and-nvidia-drivers/

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I’ll give it a try but never heard about that for AMD drivers ever. Thanks!

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It didn’t work. Still have intermittent blinking screens.