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Netsu

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 182

[SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

Fresh arch install on a laptop with radeon hd 4650.
Decided to try radeon hd driver first (haven't really read into which is best for which chipsets), installed it, ran 'Xorg -configure' and X starts just fine, but crashes (and flashes colours) when I try to quit it and all tty's are blank black screens.
Next try is with xf86-video-ati, no problems with getting out of X but there are some artifacts including:
- icons in Tint2's systray aren't displayed properly, not displayed at all or mismatched
- lxappearance is almost unreadable
- graphical text editors colour all lines black on startup, they remain this way until you do something, click on it, input text, scroll etc.
I'm using openbox, here is my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "drm"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"            # [<str>]
        #Option     "offscreensize"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ignoreconnector"        # [<str>]
        #Option     "forcereduced"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "forcedpi"               # <i>
        #Option     "useconfiguredmonitor"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HPD"                    # <str>
        #Option     "NoRandr"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "RROutputOrder"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVMode"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "ScaleType"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "UseAtomBIOS"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AtomBIOS"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "UnverifiedFeatures"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Audio"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AudioStreamSilence"     # [<str>]
        #Option     "HDMI"                   # [<str>]
        #Option     "COHERENT"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceLowPowerMode"      # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LowPowerModeEngineClock"     # <i>
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "M96 [Mobility Radeon HD 4650]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option "AGPMode"    "4"
    Option "ColorTiling"    "on"
    Option "AccelMethod"    "EXA"
    Option "DRI"        "on"
    Option "DynamicPM"    "on"
    Option "ClockGating"    "on"
    Option "RenderAccel"    "on"
    Option "ScalerWidth"    "2048"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I also tried hwd but it only generates xorg.conf with the vesa driver (with which the artifacts don't occur by the way).

Last edited by Netsu (2010-04-10 09:40:57)

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Netsu

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

Anyone at least encountered something similar? I'd appreciate any info on this. I'm clueless, and from what I read, ATI Catalyst isn't working with Xorg>1.7.0, so there's nothing left to try.

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

Delete your xorg.conf, and try again (make sure you hal running and xorg-input-drivers installed).

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

- graphical text editors colour all lines black on startup, they remain this way until you do something, click on it, input text, scroll etc.

I suffered from this exact problem with my HD 4330. I've tried everything, finally I've given up, downgraded X.org to 1.6 and installed the catalyst driver. Doing fine ever since.

I know catalyst sucks in general, but in my case this is the only working option.

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Netsu

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

Delete your xorg.conf, and try again (make sure you hal running and xorg-input-drivers installed).

Tried that several times, also using hwd.

- graphical text editors colour all lines black on startup, they remain this way until you do something, click on it, input text, scroll etc.

I suffered from this exact problem with my HD 4330. I've tried everything, finally I've given up, downgraded X.org to 1.6 and installed the catalyst driver. Doing fine ever since.

I know catalyst sucks in general, but in my case this is the only working option.

Good to know I'm not alone, and that there's a working solution, even if I have to downgrade.

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aa

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Registered: 2010-01-16

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

I have the same problem, even with the "normal" radeon driver:

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5209/artifacts.png

I did not find any related bugreport yet. so are there any updates on this?

Netsu

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Re: [SOLVED] X11 + radeon hd 4650 = artifacts

Mine looked different, and testing catalyst driver (10.4) solved it all.

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