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lasombra

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From: Luzern

Registered: 2011-09-01

Posts: 68

[SOLVED] Glitches in Screen (ATI video problems?)

Since upgrading to gnome-shell 3.4 I see glitches on my screen all over the time. Not quite sure if it's really related to the upgrade of gnome-shell or maybe also for other packages.

This is annoying, especially when working in the terminal when suddenly text is not readable anymore.

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 9488

Here a list of (relevant?) packages installed on my machine:

• testing/gnome-shell 3.4.0-1 (gnome) [installed]

• extra/xf86-input-acecad 1.5.0-3 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]

• extra/xf86-input-evdev 2.7.0-2 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]

• extra/xf86-input-synaptics 1.5.99.902-1 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]

• extra/xf86-video-ati 6.14.4-2 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]

• extra/xf86-video-fbdev 0.4.2-6 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]

• extra/xf86-video-vesa 2.3.1-1 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-bdftopcf 1.0.3-2 (xorg xorg-apps) [installed]

• extra/xorg-font-util 1.3.0-1 (xorg-fonts xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-font-utils 7.6-3 [installed]

• extra/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-2 [installed]

• extra/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-3 (xorg-fonts xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.1-2 [installed]

• extra/xorg-luit 1.1.1-1 (xorg xorg-apps) [installed]

• extra/xorg-mkfontdir 1.0.7-1 (xorg xorg-apps) [installed]

• extra/xorg-mkfontscale 1.1.0-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-server 1.12.1-1 (xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-server-common 1.12.1-1 [installed]

• extra/xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.0-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xauth 1.0.7-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xkbcomp 1.2.4-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xmessage 1.0.3-2 [installed]

• extra/xorg-xmodmap 1.0.6-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xrandr 1.3.5-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xrdb 1.0.9-2 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xset 1.2.2-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

• extra/xorg-xwininfo 1.1.2-1 (xorg-apps xorg) [installed]

Any clue what can cause this?

Last edited by lasombra (2012-04-16 17:58:48)

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 4,092

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Re: [SOLVED] Glitches in Screen (ATI video problems?)

I'm not sure what the problem is.

You could try using the prebuilt radeon driver packages, that I found out by reading this section of the wiki recently: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ra … MS_enabled (the spiralinear server)

I think the package is called "xf86-video-ati-git".

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [SOLVED] Glitches in Screen (ATI video problems?)

Looks like cairo-1.12.0 related stuff.

xorg-server-1.12.1-2 and xf86-video-ati 6.14.4-4 that are currently in [testing] should fix it.

lasombra

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From: Luzern

Registered: 2011-09-01

Posts: 68

Re: [SOLVED] Glitches in Screen (ATI video problems?)

Looks like cairo-1.12.0 related stuff.

xorg-server-1.12.1-2 and xf86-video-ati 6.14.4-4 that are currently in [testing] should fix it.

Thanks, the upgrade actually seem to have the issue fixed.