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#1 2008-07-08 10:14:46

xcession
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Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Hello,
I've a problem with screen flickering after install ATI proprietary driver...
It's not flickering all the time... just every about 10sec+ ...
Using opensource driver seem to be fine... but I think the proprietary driver is much faster...:P

Anyone know how to fix this?
btw, I'm on Compaq Presario V2000 - Radeon X200

here is my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    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  "xtrap"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "freetype"
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"

    #DisplaySize      310   180    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "QDS"
    ModelName    "20"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
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     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusType"                # [<str>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"          # <i>
        #Option     "AGPSize"                # <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"             # <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FBTexPercent"           # <i>
        #Option     "DepthBits"              # <i>
        #Option     "PCIAPERSize"            # <i>
        #Option     "AccelDFS"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DDCMode"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"        # [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"       # <freq>
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "TunerType"              # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"     # <str>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"     # <str>
        #Option     "ScalerWidth"            # <i>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicClocks"          # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ReverseDDC"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ConnectorTable"         # <str>
        #Option     "DefaultConnectorTable"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTMDSPLL"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVDACLoadDetect"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceTVOut"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVStandard"             # <str>
        #Option     "IgnoreLidStatus"        # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
    Option        "AccelMethod"        "EXA" # <str>
    Option        "AGPMode"            "4" # <i>
    Option        "AGPFastWrite"        "True" # [<bool>]
    Option        "ColorTiling"        "True" # [<bool>]
    Option        "EnablePageFlip"    "True" # [<bool>]
    Option      "TexturedXrender"        "True" # [<bool>]
    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"    "True" # [<bool>]
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    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

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group        "video"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by xcession (2008-07-08 10:21:17)

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#2 2008-07-08 11:06:55

Procyon
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Have you rebooted?

It reminds me of what happened to me me yesterday after installing the new nvidia drivers and kernel.

I thought it wasn't wise to go on without a reboot, because some opengl (could be something else) apps wouldn't start. At some point I was playing Dwarf Fortress which doesn't need opengl I guess, it flickered like 10 times in a fraction of a second, half a second normal, and then flicked again for a fraction of a second, and then the whole computer froze! Music was still playing, but keyboard didn't do anything and the screen was stuck.

After pressing the reset button I actually still have to try some things out, but I think it'll be fine now, because the new kernel&driver are loaded.

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#3 2008-07-08 11:53:55

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Procyon wrote:

Have you rebooted?

It reminds me of what happened to me me yesterday after installing the new nvidia drivers and kernel.

I thought it wasn't wise to go on without a reboot, because some opengl (could be something else) apps wouldn't start. At some point I was playing Dwarf Fortress which doesn't need opengl I guess, it flickered like 10 times in a fraction of a second, half a second normal, and then flicked again for a fraction of a second, and then the whole computer froze! Music was still playing, but keyboard didn't do anything and the screen was stuck.

After pressing the reset button I actually still have to try some things out, but I think it'll be fine now, because the new kernel&driver are loaded.

Yes i have reboot after install the driver... playing around to enable/disable device options in xorg.conf and reboot everytime I make changes...:/

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#4 2008-07-08 14:45:32

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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

You don't need to reboot every time you make changes to xorg.conf.  Just restart X or log out/in.

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#5 2008-07-08 15:17:42

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

tigrmesh wrote:

You don't need to reboot every time you make changes to xorg.conf.  Just restart X or log out/in.

Thanks for an advise big_smile
I'm new to this linux world... there's long way ahead to learn, but I love it. tongue

still haven't figure out how to solve this screen flickering problem sad

maybe I should go for the slower but not flicker opensource driver?

Last edited by xcession (2008-07-08 15:21:46)

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#6 2008-07-08 15:27:29

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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Yeah I use the open source driver on my laptop (which has the same gpu as your laptop) and there is no flickering; the Catalyst driver seems to have trouble on a lot of Mobility gpus.

My Rigs:
- Mid-2007 iMac 20", Intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB DDR2-800, 250GB SATA HDD, and...MIGHTY MOUSE!!! tongue, OSX 10.5 Leopard, ATI Radeon 2400XT 128MB
- HP zv6203cl, AMD Athlon 64 3200 S939, 2x512MB DDR400, 80GB 4200rpm HDD, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB, Arch i686 cool
- 1986 Gibson SG Junior Cherry Red, Ibanez 15W amp, DigiTech RP250 modeling processor

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#7 2008-07-08 17:33:14

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

kclive18 wrote:

Yeah I use the open source driver on my laptop (which has the same gpu as your laptop) and there is no flickering; the Catalyst driver seems to have trouble on a lot of Mobility gpus.

There's another issue with opensource driver... Images in firefox not render correctly.. sad

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#8 2008-07-08 18:17:06

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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

xcession wrote:
kclive18 wrote:

Yeah I use the open source driver on my laptop (which has the same gpu as your laptop) and there is no flickering; the Catalyst driver seems to have trouble on a lot of Mobility gpus.

There's another issue with opensource driver... Images in firefox not render correctly.. sad

Could you please explain further how firefox doesn't render images correctly?  It works fine on my laptop.

My Rigs:
- Mid-2007 iMac 20", Intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB DDR2-800, 250GB SATA HDD, and...MIGHTY MOUSE!!! tongue, OSX 10.5 Leopard, ATI Radeon 2400XT 128MB
- HP zv6203cl, AMD Athlon 64 3200 S939, 2x512MB DDR400, 80GB 4200rpm HDD, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB, Arch i686 cool
- 1986 Gibson SG Junior Cherry Red, Ibanez 15W amp, DigiTech RP250 modeling processor

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#9 2008-07-08 19:10:38

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

kclive18 wrote:

Could you please explain further how firefox doesn't render images correctly?  It works fine on my laptop.

It's look like this ...:|
firefox 3 screenshot

Last edited by xcession (2008-07-08 19:12:15)

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#10 2008-07-08 19:22:39

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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Did you follow the wiki instructions on installing and configuring the open-source ATI driver?  I followed that exactly when I installed Arch on my laptop about 1 1/2 months ago.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … TI_Drivers

My Rigs:
- Mid-2007 iMac 20", Intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB DDR2-800, 250GB SATA HDD, and...MIGHTY MOUSE!!! tongue, OSX 10.5 Leopard, ATI Radeon 2400XT 128MB
- HP zv6203cl, AMD Athlon 64 3200 S939, 2x512MB DDR400, 80GB 4200rpm HDD, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB, Arch i686 cool
- 1986 Gibson SG Junior Cherry Red, Ibanez 15W amp, DigiTech RP250 modeling processor

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#11 2008-07-09 07:14:39

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

kclive18 wrote:

Did you follow the wiki instructions on installing and configuring the open-source ATI driver?  I followed that exactly when I installed Arch on my laptop about 1 1/2 months ago.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … TI_Drivers

yes, i've follow that wiki instruction...

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#12 2008-07-09 09:47:38

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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

It might be handy to post your Xorg.log, for both your catalyst and opensource-driver (whichever one you want fixed:P).

For lack of better words: chair, never, toothbrush, really. Ohw, and fish!

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#13 2008-07-09 10:05:16

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

ok.. here is my opensource driver xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    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  "xtrap"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "freetype"
    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"
    #DisplaySize      310   180    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "QDS"
    ModelName    "20"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    BoardName   "Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
    Option      "TexturedXrender"        "True"
    Option      "AccelMethod"        "EXA"
    Option      "AGPFastWrite"        "True"
    Option      "ColorTiling"        "True"
    Option      "EnablePageFlip"        "True"
    Option      "AGPMode"            "4"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    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

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group        "video"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

Last edited by xcession (2008-07-09 10:06:15)

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#14 2008-07-09 10:07:01

lldmer
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Although this might be usefull aswell, what I actually meant was your logfile (/var/log/Xorg.0.log).

For lack of better words: chair, never, toothbrush, really. Ohw, and fish!

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#15 2008-07-09 10:08:41

lldmer
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Also, you might wanna checkout this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43127

For lack of better words: chair, never, toothbrush, really. Ohw, and fish!

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#16 2008-07-09 11:21:01

kclive18
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

Remove the "DRI" section and remove "dri" from your modules section (actually, comment both of these out).  X doesn't work when these settings are enabled in xorg.conf on my laptop.

My Rigs:
- Mid-2007 iMac 20", Intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB DDR2-800, 250GB SATA HDD, and...MIGHTY MOUSE!!! tongue, OSX 10.5 Leopard, ATI Radeon 2400XT 128MB
- HP zv6203cl, AMD Athlon 64 3200 S939, 2x512MB DDR400, 80GB 4200rpm HDD, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB, Arch i686 cool
- 1986 Gibson SG Junior Cherry Red, Ibanez 15W amp, DigiTech RP250 modeling processor

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#17 2008-07-09 13:10:48

xcession
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Re: Screen flickering after install ati proprietary driver

I have cleanin' up my config files and test them both.. (Opensource and Proprietary)
Result:
Opensource:
- Screen not flickering.
- Some images in firefox not render correctly.
- Slower than proprietary.
Proprietary:
- Screen flickering every 10sec+
- Images in firefox are render correctly.
- Faster than opensource.

Here are my xorg.conf and Xorg.9.log
Opensource:
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/35322/xorg- … rce.tar.gz
Proprietary:
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/35322/xorg- … ary.tar.gz

big_smile

Last edited by xcession (2008-07-09 13:15:29)

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