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kev717

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Screen flickers with ATI open source driver when using a SATA device

I am using an ATI HD4200 graphics card with the open source Radeon driver.  For some reason, whenever I use the SATA device installed on the second SATA port on my computer (or third, fourth, fifth, or sixth), if I access the SATA device (either a DVD drive or a secondary hard drive), black lines appear on the screen.  This happens regardless of what SATA cable I use.  This does not appear to be associated with the motherboard because the issue does not occur with the closed-source driver. 

Using the closed-source driver is not reasonable though because certain programs I use require Xorg 1.17 (which the proprietary driver doesn't work on).  The flickering only happens on the DVI output too. 

Is there a way to fix this issue on Arch?  Perhaps an Xorg option?  Below is my lspci:

lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. AMD RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
01:05.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
03:05.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
03:05.1 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
03:05.2 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
03:05.3 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
03:05.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): ULi Electronics Inc. M5253 P1394 OHCI 1.1 Controller

EDIT: important lines: 00:11.0 and 01:05.0

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Last edited by kev717 (2015-05-15 18:46:42)

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ksu

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Registered: 2015-02-26

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Re: Screen flickers with ATI open source driver when using a SATA device

Not sure if this will help, but looks like your SATA controller is running in IDE mode? have you tried to switch to AHCI mode in the BIOS? No idea if this could be the reason for the blank lines, but nothing surprises me anymore in linux land

Last edited by ksu (2015-05-16 10:45:04)

kev717

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Re: Screen flickers with ATI open source driver when using a SATA device

While switching to AHCI mode did not entirely resolve the problem, it has significantly reduced the occurrence of the black lines.

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