My display keep going out then back on for no apparent reason.
I have no idea where to start figuring this out - all my updates are installed
SYSTEM:
OS: Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop x86_64
KDE: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5”
AMD Phenom™ II X6 1090T Processor
Speed: 3,200.00 MHz
Cores: 5
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model:
2D driver: radeon
3D driver: Unknown Gallium (7.11)
Total memory (RAM): 7.8 GiB
Free memory: 5.3 GiB (+ 1.2 GiB Caches)
Free swap: 2.0 GiB
I should clarify a little, the display is not actually turning on and off, it just stops displaying for a few seconds then starts displaying again.
Everything is fine in windows so its not a hardware issue.
I see a sticky above referring to legacy ATI drivers, although my card is a 68xx series, it seems to be affected by the new ATI driver update
I note that you’re using the open source radeon driver. Have you considered installing the proprietary driver?
One of our members has made the process easier with an installation script:
http://forums.opensuse.org/content/115-ati-driver-atiupgrade-new-version.html
I’m not having a lot of success with that
linux-barl:/home/bilbo # atiupgrade
(1) - Analyzing system...
* Found ATI graphics card: HD 6800
(2) - Getting latest (or specified) Catalyst version: 12.6
(3) - Installing required packages...
* Kernel source will be installed...
* make is already installed
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
gcc gcc46 glibc-devel kernel-default-devel kernel-desktop-devel kernel-devel kernel-source kernel-syms kernel-xen-devel
linux-glibc-devel
10 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 82.7 MiB. After the operation, additional 441.6 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Retrieving package kernel-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.noarch (1/10), 7.7 MiB (37.3 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kernel-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.noarch.rpm [done (258.1 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kernel-xen-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 (2/10), 2.0 MiB (2.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kernel-xen-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64.rpm [done (290.0 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kernel-default-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 (3/10), 2.0 MiB (2.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kernel-default-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64.rpm [done (277.5 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 (4/10), 2.0 MiB (2.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64.rpm [done (292.7 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kernel-source-3.1.10-1.16.1.noarch (5/10), 61.8 MiB (371.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kernel-source-3.1.10-1.16.1.noarch.rpm [done (298.2 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kernel-syms-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64 (6/10), 336.0 KiB (1.0 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kernel-syms-3.1.10-1.16.1.x86_64.rpm [done (194.5 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package linux-glibc-devel-3.1_rc5-7.1.1.noarch (7/10), 778.0 KiB (3.1 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: linux-glibc-devel-3.1_rc5-7.1.1.noarch.rpm [done (106.4 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package glibc-devel-2.14.1-14.27.1.x86_64 (8/10), 612.0 KiB (2.9 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: glibc-devel-2.14.1-14.27.1.x86_64.rpm [done (184.3 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package gcc46-4.6.2_20111026-1.1.4.x86_64 (9/10), 5.5 MiB (18.5 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: gcc46-4.6.2_20111026-1.1.4.x86_64.rpm [done (252.3 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package gcc-4.6-15.1.3.x86_64 (10/10), 4.0 KiB (0 B unpacked)
Retrieving: gcc-4.6-15.1.3.x86_64.rpm [done]
Installing: kernel-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1 [done]
Installing: kernel-xen-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1 [done]
Installing: kernel-default-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1 [done]
Installing: kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.10-1.16.1 [done]
Installing: kernel-source-3.1.10-1.16.1 [done]
Installing: kernel-syms-3.1.10-1.16.1 [done]
Installing: linux-glibc-devel-3.1_rc5-7.1.1 [done]
Installing: glibc-devel-2.14.1-14.27.1 [done]
Installing: gcc46-4.6.2_20111026-1.1.4 [done]
Installing: gcc-4.6-15.1.3 [done]
(4) - Creating /usr/share/atiupgrade directory...
(5) - Downloading the ATI installer amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run ...
* Connecting... Please wait...
asking libproxy about url 'http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run'
libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
--2012-07-15 06:26:52-- http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run
Resolving www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www2.ati.com'
* ATI installer amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run not found. Script aborted.
On 2012-07-15 13:06, coasterad wrote:
>
> I’m not having a lot of success with that
You have network problems, solve them.
> Code:
> --------------------
> Resolving www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)… failed: Name or service not known.
> wget: unable to resolve host address `www2.ati.com’
> --------------------
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
the only thing that cannot deal with " http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run" is yast and zypper - firefox has no problem navigating there and downloading the file
Now what?
On 2012-07-15 20:36, coasterad wrote:
>
> the only thing that cannot deal with "
> http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run"
> is yast and zypper - firefox has no problem navigating there and
> downloading the file
>
> Now what?
Have you told yast/zypper to use a proxy? Check the configuration.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
My apologies but I do not know enough about proxy, zypper or Linux to do as you suggest.
I don’t know why it doesn’t resolve for you. From a terminal, I executed
:~> wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run
asking libproxy about url 'http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run'
libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
--2012-07-16 11:38:33-- http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run
Resolving www2.ati.com... 68.232.45.78
Connecting to www2.ati.com|68.232.45.78|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 106660241 (102M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run'
It proceeded to download the requested file without issue.
When I do it, I get
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run
asking libproxy about url 'http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run'
libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
--2012-07-15 20:25:30-- http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run
Resolving www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www2.ati.com'
Hi
Maybe the OP has a DNS issue, I get;
CODE}
Resolving www2.ati.com… 12.120.136.146"
Then for host, I get;
host www2.ati.com
www2.ati.com is an alias for wpc.658C.att-acdn.net.
wpc.658C.att-acdn.net has address 68.254.148.146
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.34-0.7-default
up 5 days 23:23, 3 users, load average: 0.53, 0.44, 0.41
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPUOn 2012-07-16 02:51, malcolmlewis wrote:
> Then for host, I get;
>
> host www2.ati.com
>
> www2.ati.com is an alias for wpc.658C.att-acdn.net.
> wpc.658C.att-acdn.net has address 68.254.148.146
>
I get 32.58.174.146. They give different IPs based on who knows what.
coasterad, what do you get for ‘host www2.ati.com’?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
@coasterad: Try installing this way
[SDB:ATI drivers - openSUSE](http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers)
bilbo@linux-barl:~> sudo host www2.ati.com
root's password:
www2.ati.com is an alias for wpc.658C.att-acdn.net.
wpc.658C.att-acdn.net has address 12.120.162.146
I am having some success with that but I still have to get zypper and yast to resolve www2.ati.com because every time I open yast or do zypper up, it hangs up my system
ok - those drivers are installed, I think, so now, back over to zypper error thread to get zypper and yast to resolve www2.ati.com
Display Info
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model:
2D driver: fglrx
3D driver:TI A
Has that helped with your display issue?
No, my display still has issues. but not all the time .
everything is fine now but if I must restart my PC, it may boot up with the display issue or, not - I hate it because it is not consistent.
ok, the screen blanking issues persist and frequency has increased - my screen blanks about every 5 seconds or so - very annoying
Also I have lost sound from firefox/you tube - hardware driver meltdown maybe?
Whatever is happening happens at boot up time - perhaps a driver is being loaded incorrectly or not at all.
Is there a way to refresh all drivers after boot up?