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SmolArch1500

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[SOLVED] Visual artifacting on parts of GUI after clean installation

I recently installed Arch on an old laptop to try and revive it and for the most part everything is working well enough. I installed verbatim to the install guide and am using XFCE desktop environment with LightDM. The issue I'm encountering is with all kinds of visual artifacting on buttons and in certain applications. Some applications show no artifacting at all and others have a lot. Firefox doesn't show any but Pale Moon has a lot. It is also present on the login screen on LightDM. Any time I highlight over something like the application menu or a button in a window, there is visual artifacting as shown in this photo:

https://imgur.com/VHAhocN

The specs of this laptop are as follows:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Satellite A215 PSAEGU-01100U
Kernel: 6.3.1-arch1-1
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 1280x800
DE: Xfce 4.18
CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1
Memory: 2162MiB / 3792MiB

Any help on identifying what's causing this would be much appreciated

Last edited by SmolArch1500 (2023-05-05 21:26:24)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual artifacting on parts of GUI after clean installation

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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SmolArch1500

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual artifacting on parts of GUI after clean installation

Since the output is quite long, I put it in a pastebin: https://pastebin.pl/view/89817379

I went to directory /var/log and did "cat Xorg.0.log" to get this output. Hopefully this is what you were asking for

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual artifacting on parts of GUI after clean installation

[    44.320] (II) modeset(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on ATI RS690

a) since the chip is ~15 years old, can we rule out a hardware issue
b) try to use xf86-video-ati, it'll default to exa for that generation - https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/xf8 … adeon.4.en
Probably for a reason.

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SmolArch1500

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual artifacting on parts of GUI after clean installation

Installing that seems to have completely resolved the issue, thank you very much for the help