Video shadowing

[ionmich]

XFCE - I get some light shadowing to the right of text. Is there another driver I can use? Thanks in advance.

 # lshw -c video  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RS780L [Radeon 3000]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1280,1024
       resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:d000(size=256) memory:febf0000-febfffff memory:fea00000-feafffff memory:c0000-dffff

[mrmazda]

@ionmich

XFCE - I get some light shadowing to the right of text. Is there another driver I can use?

There are two potentially optimal ones to choose from for old Radeons. https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/562680-AMD-Intel-amp-NVidia-X-graphics-driver-primer-third-edition

inxi -Gayz does a better job of explaining your graphics environment, as long as you have run inxi -U[1] at any point after installing it.

[1] applicable to Leap, not necessarily TW. Leap provides an antique, broken inxi, 3.1.0. Current is 3.3.12, with 3.3.13 due soon.

[ionmich]

@mrmazda

There are two potentially optimal ones to choose from for old Radeons. https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/562680-AMD-Intel-amp-NVidia-X-graphics-driver-primer-third-edition

inxi -Gayz does a better job of explaining your graphics environment, as long as you have run inxi -U[1] at any point after installing it.

[1] applicable to Leap, not necessarily TW. Leap provides an antique, broken inxi, 3.1.0. Current is 3.3.12, with 3.3.13 due soon.

Thanks for the speedy response and advice. AMD/Radeon has dropped support for series 3000 graphics. My simple solution was to bypass the onboard graphics, insert a more recent graphic card and reboot. Shadowing gone.

[mrmazda]

@ionmich

AMD/Radeon has dropped support for series 3000 graphics…

in the proprietary driver. The FOSS drivers provided by openSUSE are still working here, on cards both newer and older than your RS780L. I have yet to notice any such shadowing. I have noticed others with font troubles have solved their issues by reinstalling offending fonts. IMO, openSUSE force installs too many fonts with minimal differences among them.