Fedora/Gnome3 : Display Problem on my hardware.

[Fred Smith]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:19:22PM +0530, Madhurjya Roy wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 

I understand that Gnome-3 simply doesn't work well without 3D
video acceleration. i've not personally experienced that, so I don't
know if your symptoms are what actually occurs without 3D accel.

Now, I know your AMD processor includes a Radeon video unit, so
you SHOULD be getting 3d accel.

however, if you didn't install AMD/ATI's proprietary driver for it,
you're probably depending on the open source driver instead, and
I suppose it simply may not work very well with that particular chip.

As I said, I have no direct experience, so I may be all wet here.

Good luck!

Fred

> My old  PC MoBo recently died and so, I built a  new PC with
> the following hardware specification :
> 
> * Processor : AMD A4-6300K 3.7 GHz Dual Core APU with integrated
> Radeon HD 8370D GPU
> 
> * MoBo : MSI A58M-E33
> 
> * RAM : 4 GB Corsair Value RAM 1600 MHz.
> 
> * HDD : 500 GB WD Caviar @ 7200 rpm
> 
> * Monitor : 19 inch Samsung SyncMaster at 1400 X 900 pixels @ 60-75 Hz
> refresh rate
> 
> So, I went ahead and popped in the Fedora 21 Workstation Disc.
> Anaconda worked well
> and installed Fedora 21.
> 
> But as soon as I restarted my PC and logged in I found the desktop
> flickering! I moved the mouse pointer and it flickered even more
> vigorously and when I pulled through the activities hot corner, I
> could barely see the icons, which appeared like distorted squares.
> 
> Somehow, I managed to open the terminal. All the text in the terminal
> were clearly visible, I installed Xfce desktop and to my surprise it
> worked fine, text and icon everything was clear and perfectly
> usable. Next, I installed KDE and it worked as well. I really had trouble
> understanding the wobbly widgety interface, though! So, I assumed the
> problem is with Gnome 3.
> 
> I reinstalled the complete Gnome desktop and alas, the problem
> persisted! I have used Fedora 20 for quite some time on my
> laptop, so, I booted a live image of Fedora 20, that I had had flashed
> onto a pen drive and still there was the same problem.
> 
> Frustrated, I gave up and installed Ubuntu, Unity worked well but
> when I installed Gnome3, I was back where I was, running a completely
> graphically distorted UI!
> 
> I've since changed many distros (without Gnome as DE) and all of them
> worked fine. Windows 8.1 worked fluidly as well! I am currently using
> Ubuntu 14.10 (with Unity as DE). I found it quite close to Gnome3.
> 
> However, I would still like to use Fedora and since, I'm using this as
> a multimedia PC, so Gnome3 is still my preference.
> 
> >From my observations, it seems to be a Gnome 3 hardware incompatibility issue.
> 
> I've tried changing refreshing rate, resolution and colour depth and
> nothing could solve the issue! Even switching to the proprietary AMD
> drivers didn't work out.
> 
> Should I file a bug report on BugZilla?
> 
> If anyone's got some idea, please help!
> 
> Thanks,
> Madhurjya Roy
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