Hp dv6-6145dx 12.2 Radeon HD 6620G discrete-class graphics Issue

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This is an odd one, the opensource driver is working great, except for two issues.

  1. When I attempt to put the system into sleep or hibernate on wake the driver crashes. Is there a way to fix this issue?

  2. The Second issue has to do with Active screen edges, I can’t use the left or top edges of the screen, but the bottom and right work fine.

When I reduce the resolution one step lower all the edges work just fine, unfortunately the display quality is terrible. I haven’t found a post on adjusting the alignment of a laptop screen, other than those using Sax2, is there a way to do this in 12.2?

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Both Issue can be resolved, I will start by addressing the screen edges issue as this doesn’t require the installation of the Proprietary ATI Driver.

Steps for fixing the active screen edges issue:

Simply open and edit the Xorg config file. Add this option to the PreferredMode “1360x768”, just to be clear the default option is 1366x768.

Location: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

   
Section "Monitor"
 Identifier   "0-LVDS"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
    Option        "PreferredMode" "**1360**x768"
    Option        "TargetRefresh" "60"
    Option        "Position" "0 0"
    Option        "Rotate" "normal"
    Option        "Disable" "false"

You may have to reload X to see the changes take effect, to do this press crtl-alt-backspace twice or log out and log back in.

This should resolve the kde active screen edges failing to activate on modern wide screen laptops with this issue. in

The fix for the second issue involves installing the “ATI Proprietary Driver” which can be less than fun to put it mildly. If there is any way around this I would love to hear about it, the open source driver is working beautifully in 12.2 and I would love to use it exclusively. This said while searching for a fix for the sleep and hibernation issue I found this solution to the problems with installing the proprietary driver.

ATI driver with atiupgrade (new version) ( OpenSuse>Articles>Multimedia>Video)
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ATIupgrade is a script that helps automate the selection and installation of the proprietary driver. The automation of the driver revision number selection process is probably the best part of this script. Why? because selecting the right revision of the driver for your hardware is probably the most important part of the hole install process as far as Linux is concerned. Get it wrong and terminal login better be your preferred user environment.

That said download the atiupgrade rpm install it and follow the instruction on the webpage linked above. Once you have installed you can sleep, hibernate, and adjust your screen resolution to 1360x768 fixing the first issue as well.

Just to be clear using the open source driver when possible is easier, this stems from the proprietary drivers tenancy to break after a kernel update.