Re: [opensuse] ATI video flashing/strobing?
- From: Roman <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:02:02 -0400
On July 7, 2009 5:04:01 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 11:01:23 am Clayton wrote:
If you have a driver version 2.1.8494 (from standard 11.1
repositories), it is *not* the ATI Catalyst (fglrx) driver. Check
with "lsmod | grep fglrx". My *guess* is that you have actually
installed the radeon or radeonhd driver which would explain the
source of the problem. Report back.
I removed the fglrx driver, went to the ATI site and
downloaded/installed the ATI Catalyst driver. All seemed to go OK...
tried restarting X... didn't work, so rebooted, and now the computer
is caught in a boot loop.. rebooting every time it tries to load X.
Going to try to sort that now, to see if I can at least get it to boot
to a CLI.
OK, after much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I managed to convince X
to start up. Turns out.. since I had a clean install, I forgot to
install gcc and the kernel-sources, so the manual install (from the
GUI) failed, but did not actually report back any errors.. it just
said install was successful... but since no gcc, and no sources, the
kernel driver was not built... and well... splat...
I'll say "splat", not reporting lack of the kernel source and reporting a
successful fglrx.ko module build is nuts. Even stranger is how the fglrx
module got loaded to show with lsmod to begin with.
At least in my understanding if the build failed due to lack of gcc and
kernel-source, there should be no way the module should ever load to begin
with to be reported by lsmod???
Mr. Dirsch -- what says you?
So installed the kernel-sources and gcc.. reinstalled the ATI catalyst
driver from the CLI this time... used sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx to config
xorg.conf... init 5 and X started.
Here is my current xorg.conf for my laptop x1200 (RS690M).
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/ati/xorg.conf.x1200.txt
Take a look and compare with yours and see if anything jumps out at you. I
don't get any strobing, but then I don't use mythTV.
The only killer for me is trying to display video while compiz is running.
In that case, yes, I get I guess what you call strobing. Hell, video will
barely display -- ATI.... I have tried all the different video backends
(xine, etc..) I still haven't found a working combination for that
situation.
Other than that, I get great performance with the 8-9 fglrx driver.
Anything later than 8-9, is a complete letdown. Performance either drops to
50% of where it was with the 8-9 driver or my box just continually reboots
(9-2 driver specifically)
If I can interject.... In your xorg,conf file, I have noticed in the section
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
EndSection
You no longer have to use Load "type1" as it has been replaced by Load
"freetype".
Roman
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