I bought a brand new pc (dell XPS 8300).
I’ installed suse (64 bit), on it.
Graphic card is Radeon HD 6770
My screen, a Samsung BX2231 have a 1920x1080 resolution.
Despite that being the set resolution, the image don’t take all the screen, leaving a black border around the screen. The same happens on windows, but there is an option to set that that.
So I installed the proprietary drivers. I have indeed the option to set the image full screen. But, i get some display weirdness.
The status bar on the top is all messed, so are the icons on it.
With some things the text don’t show right.
If anyone have a clue on how to set the right size with the free drivers,or fix the wackiness with the proprietary ones.
I don’t know if I can help, but some things you could provide when using the proprietary driver (same would also be useful with openSource drivers), which is to open the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and copy its contents and paste to SUSE Paste, and then post here the URL/web-address where that paste is located.
That might give our forum volunteer graphic guru’s some more information on which to analyze the situation.
Thanks for that. Note what is of interest here is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. Thats actually a different file than the xorg.conf (which is also of some interest). Please open the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and paste the contents into the openSUSE paste site SUSE Paste and post here the website/url address where it is located, so that those on our forum who are knowledgeable in this technical area can look at the file contents. If you can provide that with proprietary driver (and also with openSource driver use) that would be helpful.
OK, that shows your monitor identified and your graphic card identified.
13.023] X.Org X Server 1.9.3 Release Date: 2010-12-13
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13.023] Current Operating System: Linux Catherine-XPS 2.6.37.6-0.5-default #1 SMP 2011-04-25 21:48:33 +0200 x86_64
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13.183] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
13.184] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
13.428] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
13.428] compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 8.86.5
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13.484] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
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13.522] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
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13.543] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series" (Chipset = 0x68b8)
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13.812] (II) fglrx(0): Display0 EDID data ---------------------------
13.812] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: SAM Model: 76d Serial#: 1110590277
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13.813] (II) fglrx(0): Monitor name: SMBX2231
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13.998] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
13.998] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
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14.888] (WW) Logitech USB Receiver: ignoring absolute axes.
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14.912] (EE) Gyration Gyration RF Technology Receiver: failed to initialize for relative axes.
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14.936] (WW) Gyration Gyration RF Technology Receiver: ignoring absolute axes.
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There are some strange entries here:
28.463] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x576i"x0.0 27.00 1440 1464 1590 1728 576 580 586 625 interlace -hsync -vsync (15.6 kHz)
54.778] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/compiled/server-907040640FBBE14F9D48F1F2EBEA0E7272571E62.xkm
1797.122] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "SAM", prod id 1901
many seconds and even minutes apart. Did you disconnect and reconnect the monitor as part of this? Did you restart X as part of this, because I can’t understand those massive time differences? Those entries confuse the issue for me.
My original guess is the wrong freq settings are possibly being applied , and I still suspect that ?
I installed Adobe digital Edition with wine yesterday, I have to black lines on books pages. (Last i knew, it works fine with wine).
An other thing I noticed is the screen shoots will only shows the desktop screen, noting else.
Here are the results :
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920
DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP2 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
1920x1080 60.0*+ 50.0 59.9 30.0 25.0 30.0
1600x1200 60.0
1776x1000 50.0 59.9 25.0 30.0
1680x1050 50.0 59.9
1400x1050 60.0 50.0
1600x900 60.0 50.0
1360x1024 60.0 50.0
1280x1024 50.0 75.0 60.0
1440x900 50.0 75.0 59.9
1280x960 50.0 60.0
1280x800 50.0 59.9
1152x864 50.0 59.9 75.0
1280x768 50.0 59.9
1280x720 60.0 50.0 59.9
1024x768 50.0 75.0 70.1 60.0
1152x648 50.0 59.9
800x600 50.0 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
720x576 59.9 50.0
720x480 50.0 60.0 59.9
640x480 50.0 75.0 72.8 66.8 59.9
DFP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
I took a look at the User Manual for your monitor (which I found here: Samsung ) , and it has:
DISPLAY MODE = VESA, 1920 x 1080
HORIZONTAL FREQUENCY (KHZ) = 67.500
VERTICAL FREQUENCY (HZ) = 60.00
PIXEL CLOCK (MHZ) = 148.500
SYNC POLARITY (H/V) = +/+
It defines:
Horizontal Frequency - The time taken to scan one line from the left-most position to the right-most position on the screen is called the horizontal cycle
and the reciprocal of the horizontal cycle is called the horizontal frequency. The horizontal frequency is represented in kHz.
Vertical Frequency - A panel must display the same picture on the screen tens of times every second so that humans can see the picture. This
frequency is called the vertical frequency. The vertical frequency is represented in Hz.
It looks to me that the Horizontal Frequency does not match.
If you have the proprietary AMD catalyst driver installed, did you try running the program (with root permissions):
But i think you’ve hit someting with the frenquancy. I switched back to the free drivers.
xrandr now says :
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
1920x1080 60.0*+
1920x1080i 25.0
1600x1200 60.0
1680x1050 60.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 75.0 59.9
1280x960 60.0
1280x800 59.8
1152x864 75.0
1280x720 60.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
I’ll try some more things when i come back from holidays. Shouldn’t I set the frequency with aticonfig if i want to use the proprietary drivers ?
My understanding is “aticonfig --initial” will create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and hence I did not recommend that. I just suggested “aticonfig”.
Do the free drivers work better ? Which free driver ? ‘radeon’ ? ‘radeonhd’ ? ‘vesa’ ?
Between social activities and work I have been very busy lately with not much free time. I have radeon hardware on a laptop but I have not had the time to pull that laptop out of our storage and turn it on to check out what the ‘aticonfig’ command offers, and my memory is pathetic.
But I think it brings up a GUI and with that you are given all sorts of options.
Alternatively one can use other GNU/Linux commands to come up with modelines that you can specify in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf file. But this is not something I can rattle off the top of my head during my typical morning minutes on the forum before I have my morning RUSH off to work, like I am doing now.
Well, i tried to do "aticonfig query-monitor’ and got a "not supported when RandR enabled.
So i added Option “EnableRandR12” “false” to the xOrg file. Got things a bit better. icons are no longer messed with, digital editions works ok.
Still have the same message with aticonfig query-monitor’ though. And some menus are still messed up.
Take a look at your menu and see if there is a Catalyst configuration tool / control center.
I’m not at an AMD fitted pc right now, but I am pretty certain I have such a menu entry on my openSUSE-11.3 laptop which has AMD hardware and the proprietary AMD graphic driver.
Edit - possibly the command is ‘amdccc’ but I can’t recall for certain. Best try a menu entry.
As far as I know ATI Catalyst driver doesn’t work properly with Gnome3-Shell window manager. You’re lucky if you are able to see anything.
I was unable to get it running on HD5670 (yet).