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sansar

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Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 3

Weird video problems with Mobility Radeon HD 4200

Recently pacman upgraded the video drivers for my video card:

[2011-04-17 12:48] upgraded xf86-input-acecad (1.4.0-4 -> 1.4.99_git20110318-1)
[2011-04-17 12:48] upgraded xf86-input-aiptek (1.3.1-2 -> 1.3.99_git20110318-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.6.0-2 -> 2.6.0-3)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-joystick (1.5.0-5 -> 1.5.99_git20110318-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.6.0-1 -> 1.6.0-2)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.7.0-1 -> 1.7.0-2)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-synaptics (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-vmmouse (12.7.0-1 -> 12.7.0-2)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-input-void (1.3.1-1 -> 1.3.1.99_git20110318-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-video-ati (6.14.0-2 -> 6.14.1-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.3.0-4 -> 2.3.0-5)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xkeyboard-config (2.1-1 -> 2.2.1-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.9.4.901-1 -> 1.10.1-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xorg-server (1.9.4.901-1 -> 1.10.1-1)
[2011-04-17 12:49] upgraded xvidcore (1.3.0-1 -> 1.3.1-1)

and now my video sometimes is glitchy.  the output looks like this:

Also the computer crashes sometimes when I view a flash video in full screen or when I come back to the screen saver.

I think this has to do with the new video drivers but I'd like to know how I can fix the problem.

I don't know what other logs to provide as I'm pretty new (using arch for a 9 months) and I haven't had video problems before.

Last edited by sansar (2011-04-23 19:50:21)

sansar

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Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 3

Re: Weird video problems with Mobility Radeon HD 4200

Here's a kernel.log from when my computer crashes after exiting a full screen flash video: http://pastebin.ca/2049865

sansar

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Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 3

Re: Weird video problems with Mobility Radeon HD 4200

I just noticed that the video card crashes after i come back from sleep mode.

Here's the kernel log: http://pastebin.ca/2050145

and the Xorg.log: http://pastebin.ca/2050146

For this crash, unlike the one that happens when I view a flash video full screen, the problem can be fixed if i log off and log back on.