problems with catalyst driver

[Eric Doutreleau]

hi

i m using dell optiplex 780 with a  ATI Radeon HD 3470 with fedora 13

i have installed the 10.7 catalyst driver from rpmfusion and i have some 
problem with the display

indeed when i scroll for example in firefox the display is not refreshed 
and i have some grey line on the screen

if i hit reload the windows is refreshed

does someone already had this kind of problem?

thanks in advance for any answer

[cheng chen]

the same problem

2010/9/1 Eric Doutreleau
> hi
>
> i m using dell optiplex 780 with a  ATI Radeon HD 3470 with fedora 13
>
> i have installed the 10.7 catalyst driver from rpmfusion and i have some
> problem with the display
>
> indeed when i scroll for example in firefox the display is not refreshed
> and i have some grey line on the screen
>
> if i hit reload the windows is refreshed
>
> does someone already had this kind of problem?
> thanks in advance for any answer
>
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[Patrick Lists]

On 09/01/2010 03:31 PM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> hi
>
> i m using dell optiplex 780 with a  ATI Radeon HD 3470 with fedora 13
>
> i have installed the 10.7 catalyst driver from rpmfusion and i have some
> problem with the display
>
> indeed when i scroll for example in firefox the display is not refreshed
> and i have some grey line on the screen
>
> if i hit reload the windows is refreshed
>
> does someone already had this kind of problem?
>
> thanks in advance for any answer

Afaik this is a known problem with 10.7. The latest release 10.8 is 
available on rpmfusion.org. I don't know if this solves the issues you 
are seeing but you can always try to upgrade to 10.8.

Regards,
Patrick

[Eric Doutreleau]

thanks for your answer
unfortunately the 10.8 didn't solve the problems
do u have any pointers related to this problem?

Le 01/09/2010 16:08, Patrick Lists a écrit :
> On 09/01/2010 03:31 PM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > i m using dell optiplex 780 with a  ATI Radeon HD 3470 with fedora 13
> >
> > i have installed the 10.7 catalyst driver from rpmfusion and i have some
> > problem with the display
> >
> > indeed when i scroll for example in firefox the display is not refreshed
> > and i have some grey line on the screen
> >
> > if i hit reload the windows is refreshed
> >
> > does someone already had this kind of problem?
> >
> > thanks in advance for any answer
>
> Afaik this is a known problem with 10.7. The latest release 10.8 is
> available on rpmfusion.org. I don't know if this solves the issues you
> are seeing but you can always try to upgrade to 10.8.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick

[Suvayu Ali]

On 1 September 2010 08:11, Eric Doutreleau
 wrote:
> thanks for your answer
> unfortunately the 10.8 didn't solve the problems
> do u have any pointers related to this problem?

Any reason not to use the open source radeon drivers? I use a ATI
Radeon 4870 with these drivers. I even have decent 3D performance!

[Eric Doutreleau]

well i have some big problems with the open source drivers
i have a video projector connected on the second output

As soon as i connect it i lost the display on the primary screen
worse randr detects only one monitor : the projector

at least the proprietary driver detect correctly both outputs

Le 01/09/2010 17:43, suvayu ali a écrit :
> On 1 September 2010 08:11, Eric Doutreleau
>   wrote:
> > thanks for your answer
> > unfortunately the 10.8 didn't solve the problems
> > do u have any pointers related to this problem?
>
> Any reason not to use the open source radeon drivers? I use a ATI
> Radeon 4870 with these drivers. I even have decent 3D performance!

[Patrick Lists]

On 09/01/2010 05:11 PM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> thanks for your answer
> unfortunately the 10.8 didn't solve the problems
> do u have any pointers related to this problem?

There is an undocumented setting which make the fglrx driver use the old 
acceleration. Not sure if that fixes it but you could try.

Try issuing this command when X is stopped (e.g. init 3):
# aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
Then restart X (e.g. init 5).

It was mentioned on the Phoronix forum:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24494

Regards,
Patrick

[Eric Doutreleau]

thanks for the answer
it works
is there a way to do that in an other like editing a text file

i m 100+ computers concerning by this problem
i m not really well at ease to do that configuration by going in level 3

Le 01/09/2010 19:22, Patrick Lists a écrit :
> On 09/01/2010 05:11 PM, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> > thanks for your answer
> > unfortunately the 10.8 didn't solve the problems
> > do u have any pointers related to this problem?
>
> There is an undocumented setting which make the fglrx driver use the old
> acceleration. Not sure if that fixes it but you could try.
>
> Try issuing this command when X is stopped (e.g. init 3):
> # aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
> Then restart X (e.g. init 5).
>
> It was mentioned on the Phoronix forum:
> http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24494
>
> Regards,
> Patrick

[James McKenzie]

Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> hi
>
> i m using dell optiplex 780 with a  ATI Radeon HD 3470 with fedora 13
>
> i have installed the 10.7 catalyst driver from rpmfusion and i have some 
> problem with the display

If you are having problems with the proprietary  Catalyst drivers, 
please advise AMD/ATI.  They are the only one's that can fix it.

If they are not proprietary, my mistake.

James McKenzie