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PaulSalden

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Registered: 2011-10-27

Posts: 13

Graphical errors when using Catalyst

I have trouble with using the proprietary driver for my AMD RADEON HD 6970 gpu. After following instructions on the wiki, everything runs reasonably well, except:

- Inside my DE, the wallpaper seems to be missing in various occasions. For example, it happens when using a file manager for the desktop and looking at GNOME's activities overview or cinnamon's expo view.
- Taking screenshots (tried multiple tools) is not possible. Instead of the actual screen, it seems to record a black screen or the background of my DM.
- The display manager background pops up every now and then when the screen flashes. This in principal is no big deal, but because of the issues I'm having with screenshots I'm thinking it's related.

So far I have tried installing catalyst from the community repo, the unofficial repo and the AUR. The problem does not seem to be related to any of the ccc panel settings. I have also compared to Ubuntu-based distros which do not seem to have the problem. The only difference I spot is the lack of a xorg.conf file for those, but not using one seems not to be possible for Arch. I lack the knowledge to further look into that.

I have spent a few days on this and would really appreciate any help. Thank you!