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#1 2017-10-17 13:37:22

Norseman06
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Registered: 2014-02-06
Posts: 12

[Solved - Hardware Issue] Lenovo Z585 Screen Tearing and Freezing

I have a Lenovo Z85 running and randomly I get screen tearing or it will just freeze up.
Most of the time it freezes when I unplug the power cable.

The video card is a Radeon HD 7660G which I have determined runs on the Terascale 3 architecture.
Which I believe means I need to use xf86-video-ati driver.
I have tried adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf. Without any luck.
Is there any hope for this machine or is something I'm going to have to get used to?

Thanks,

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Radeon"
        Driver "radeon"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
        Option "DRI" "3"
        Option "TearFree" "on"
        Option "ColorTiling" "on"
        Option "ColorTiling2D" "on"
EndSection
lspci | grep VGA

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7660G]

Last edited by Norseman06 (2017-10-21 02:44:11)

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#2 2017-10-21 02:29:33

GenkiSky
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Registered: 2017-04-04
Posts: 82

Re: [Solved - Hardware Issue] Lenovo Z585 Screen Tearing and Freezing

Is this a new device, or did you only recently start seeing this issue? Does it happen when using linux-lts? Do you see any messages in dmesg/journalctl when this happens? Do you see any errors in your Xorg log? Have you confirmed in the Xorg log that the 20-radeon.conf rules are applied?

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#3 2017-10-21 02:42:45

Norseman06
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Registered: 2014-02-06
Posts: 12

Re: [Solved - Hardware Issue] Lenovo Z585 Screen Tearing and Freezing

The freezing when unplugging power ultimately became more of a problem than the screen tearing. After scouring the internet for a fix for 2 weeks I decided to try Kubuntu. It had the exact same issues. So I determined it must be a hardware compatibility issue. I reverted it to windows for a currently undetermined purpose, and setup Arch on another machine to use as my daily driver.

Thanks

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