[opensuse] Minor Graphic Anomalies After Latest ATI Driver Update?
Hi, Has anyone noticed that since the latest ATI driver update (which came out on Friday and was required to be able to upgrade to the latest Kernel for those with ATI cards using the ATI-supplied proprietary / closed driver) that occassionally portions of windows (title bars, margins, scroll bars are things I've noticed) are drawn in black or a very dark color? Switching virtual desktops or other actions that cause the erroneously color windows to be redrawn usually corrects it, but sometimes it takes a few tries. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone noticed that since the latest ATI driver update (which came out on Friday and was required to be able to upgrade to the latest Kernel for those with ATI cards using the ATI-supplied proprietary / closed driver) that occassionally portions of windows (title bars, margins, scroll bars are things I've noticed) are drawn in black or a very dark color? Switching virtual desktops or other actions that cause the erroneously color windows to be redrawn usually corrects it, but sometimes it takes a few tries.
Randall Schulz
Randall, I'm still waiting on the 9.3 driver and praying. The 9.2 driver, which I presume your running now, caused by laptop to 'reboot' continually. No telling what Stefan had to do to it to get it to work as well at it is. The last status of fglrx and my 11.1 kde4 install was that screen artifacts, pieces of windows, etc.. were left all over my desktop -- eventually repairing themselves. But performance was in the pits. Great screenshots though: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/kde4-konsole-broken.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/kde4-not-repainting.jpeg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/kde4-screen-crashed-disapp... http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/konqueror-black-scrn.jpeg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/konsole-kde3-resize.jpeg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Has anyone noticed that since the latest ATI driver update (which came out on Friday and was required to be able to upgrade to the latest Kernel for those with ATI cards using the ATI-supplied proprietary / closed driver) that occassionally portions of windows (title bars, margins, scroll bars are things I've noticed) are drawn in black or a very dark color? Switching virtual desktops or other actions that cause the erroneously color windows to be redrawn usually corrects it, but sometimes it takes a few tries.
I'm still waiting on the 9.3 driver and praying. The 9.2 driver, which I presume your running now, caused by laptop to 'reboot' continually. No telling what Stefan had to do to it to get it to work as well at it is. The last status of fglrx and my 11.1 kde4 install was that screen artifacts, pieces of windows, etc.. were left all over my desktop -- eventually repairing themselves. But performance was in the pits. Great screenshots though:
I get exactly the same on my 11.0 install running KDE3.5.9 on a system with an ATI card (so anyone who wants to pipe up and say neener neener KDE4... it's also happening in KDE3.5.x and Gnome). I've sworn up and down I would never ever buy a system with an ATI card in it... and yet I seem to have one... been regretting it every day ever since. It's a bookshelf computer, so almost impossible to change to nVidia :-( C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Has anyone noticed that since the latest ATI driver update (which came out on Friday and was required to be able to upgrade to the latest Kernel for those with ATI cards using the ATI-supplied proprietary / closed driver) that occassionally portions of windows (title bars, margins, scroll bars are things I've noticed) are drawn in black or a very dark color? Switching virtual desktops or other actions that cause the erroneously color windows to be redrawn usually corrects it, but sometimes it takes a few tries.
I'm still waiting on the 9.3 driver and praying. The 9.2 driver, which I presume your running now, caused by laptop to 'reboot' continually. No telling what Stefan had to do to it to get it to work as well at it is. The last status of fglrx and my 11.1 kde4 install was that screen artifacts, pieces of windows, etc.. were left all over my desktop -- eventually repairing themselves. But performance was in the pits. Great screenshots though:
I get exactly the same on my 11.0 install running KDE3.5.9 on a system with an ATI card (so anyone who wants to pipe up and say neener neener KDE4... it's also happening in KDE3.5.x and Gnome).
I've sworn up and down I would never ever buy a system with an ATI card in it... and yet I seem to have one... been regretting it every day ever since. It's a bookshelf computer, so almost impossible to change to nVidia :-(
C.
Clayton, Since you are running 11.0, you are in luck! Just go download: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver... (that's the September 2008 driver -- works flawlessly) Install it, and all your ATI problems will be cured *and* your graphics performance with increase by a factory of 2. The guys running ATI and 11.1 are just screwed until ATI fixes its Linux driver mess. To install the new driver: (1) make sure the 'kernel-source' package is installed, if not, then install it (as root): zypper in kernel-source (2) Build the fglrx rpm from the install package. i586: sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-IA32 x86_64 sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64 SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64 (3) make a copy of your current xorg.conf so sax2 won't screw it up cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /tmp/xorg.conf ************************************************ ** if not in runlevel 3, go to runlevel 3 now ** ************************************************ (4) (as root for all remaining commands) init 3 (5) Removing old fglrx driver rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx) (6) Preparing the kernel source (not 100% necessary, but proper) cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig > /dev/null 2>&1 make modules_prepare make clean (7) Install the new fglrx rpm you created, example: rpm -Uvh fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.532-1.x86_64.rpm (8) Initialize your xorg.conf for the new driver: aticonfig --initial (9) Add options to the end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enable compiz: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" Option "DAMAGE" "true" EndSection DAMAGE is a good thing here! You can see the release notes for X11R6.8. http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/RELNOTES2.html The Damage extension allows a client to be notified whenever something is drawn to a window. This feature is useful for VNC servers, for screen magnifiers, and for clients using the Composite extension to update the screen. If you want an xorg.conf reference to compare, you can find my current xorg.conf for my laptop with ATI x1300, Res: 1440x900, ATI 8-9 driver, compiz, etc.. here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/ati/xorg.conf.fglrx.X1300 Good luck. Post back if you get stuck.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday March 23 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone noticed that since the latest ATI driver update (which came out on Friday and was required to be able to upgrade to the latest Kernel for those with ATI cards using the ATI-supplied proprietary / closed driver) that occassionally portions of windows (title bars, margins, scroll bars are things I've noticed) are drawn in black or a very dark color? Switching virtual desktops or other actions that cause the erroneously color windows to be redrawn usually corrects it, but sometimes it takes a few tries.
Randall Schulz
Randall,
I'm still waiting on the 9.3 driver and praying. The 9.2 driver, which I presume your running now, caused by laptop to 'reboot' continually.
I'm not sure: % rpm -qa |egrep -i fgl x11-video-fglrxG01-8.582-2.1 ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae-8.582_2.6.27.19_3.2-2.1
... But performance was in the pits.
% fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 3840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 768.000 FPS 4023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.600 FPS 4024 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.800 FPS It's a wimpy card.
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-- David C. Rankin
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 15:02, Randall R Schulz
On Monday March 23 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone noticed that since the latest ATI driver update (which came out on Friday and was required to be able to upgrade to the latest Kernel for those with ATI cards using the ATI-supplied proprietary / closed driver) that occassionally portions of windows (title bars, margins, scroll bars are things I've noticed) are drawn in black or a very dark color? Switching virtual desktops or other actions that cause the erroneously color windows to be redrawn usually corrects it, but sometimes it takes a few tries. I haven't yet...
Randall,
I'm still waiting on the 9.3 driver and praying. The 9.2 driver, which I presume your running now, caused by laptop to 'reboot' continually.
I'm not sure:
% rpm -qa |egrep -i fgl x11-video-fglrxG01-8.582-2.1 ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae-8.582_2.6.27.19_3.2-2.1 ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae-8.582_2.6.25.20_0.1-2.1 x11-video-fglrxG01-8.582-2.1
on oS 11 with KDE 4.2.1 but not the latest updates, KDE that is.
... But performance was in the pits.
% fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 3840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 768.000 FPS 4023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.600 FPS 4024 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.800 FPS
It's a wimpy card. 6026 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1205.200 FPS 5995 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1199.000 FPS 5961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1192.200 FPS 5978 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1195.600 FPS
on a PowerColor X1650 Pro 512MB AGP8X. ne... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Now accepting personal mail for GMail invites. Fred Allen - "The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday March 23 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
I'm still waiting on the 9.3 driver and praying. The 9.2 driver, which I presume your running now, caused by laptop to 'reboot' continually.
I'm not sure:
% rpm -qa |egrep -i fgl x11-video-fglrxG01-8.582-2.1 ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae-8.582_2.6.27.19_3.2-2.1
Yes, The 9-2 ATI driver package provies: fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.582-1.x86_64.rpm
... But performance was in the pits.
% fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 3840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 768.000 FPS 4023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.600 FPS 4024 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.800 FPS
It's a wimpy card.
The driver is the problem.... 2004 vintage Toshiba Laptop, ATI 9600 Card, Pentium 4: 22:09 zephyr:~> glxgears 13808 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2761.522 FPS 13917 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2783.242 FPS 13941 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2788.190 FPS 13957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2791.332 FPS
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-- David C. Rankin
Randall Schulz
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
The driver is the problem....
2004 vintage Toshiba Laptop, ATI 9600 Card, Pentium 4:
22:09 zephyr:~> glxgears 13808 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2761.522 FPS 13917 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2783.242 FPS 13941 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2788.190 FPS 13957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2791.332 FPS
Oops forgot, I'm still using the 8-9 (8.532) driver: fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.532-1.x86_64.rpm For the curious, the ATI release/version nomenclature: Rel. |Ver. | | | 8-8 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.522| -1.x86_64.rpm 8-9 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.532| -1.x86_64.rpm 8-10 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.542| -1.x86_64.rpm 8-11 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.552| -1.x86_64.rpm 8-12 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.561| -1.x86_64.rpm 9-1 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.573| -1.x86_64.rpm 9-2 fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110- |8.582| -1.x86_64.rpm -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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