ATI/Radeon HD 4200 driver (on mobo)

[Gene Smith]

Gene Smith wrote, On 01/01/2010 01:52 AM:
> I have recently installed f12 on a new system with the built-in Radeon
> HD 4200 video. It basically works except for two or three things.
>
> If I try to do the suspend to ram when I power back up I have to use
> alt-F7 to see anything. Then I see that the network connection is down
> and I have to reconnect using the tray icon (not a big deal and probably
> not video driver related). But the bad thing is that the video shows
> faint and transient lines when a window is moved or scrolled and the
> background repaints a bit slower when windows are moved
>
> If I suspend to ram again, on power-on, nothing comes back and I have to
> reboot.
>
> I have installed the xorg-x11-drv-ati and mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
> but not sure they are being used. /var/log/Xorg.0.log indicates driver
> is (VESA) so not sure how you know when the ati and/or mesa driver(s)
> are actually "running". (lsmod indicates that "radeon" is installed.)
>
> Anyone have experience or advice on using this type of on-board video?
>
> -gene

Possibly someone will see this with my type of motherboard running linux 
which is ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO and we can compare notes.

Some additional information: If I do "suspend to disk" it saves the 
state and turns off OK. And on power-on it comes back up and looks OK 
but the mouse is dead (keyboard OK but can't find shortcuts to do much). 
But after either type of suspend (to disk or to ram) the next shutdown 
hangs and have to power off to recover (possibly sshd ok but didn't try 
to log in that way).

Another thing I have recently noticed is that ff sometimes now shows 
artifacts when scolling in that a text line that is half exposed at the 
bottom will show the the exposed half when scrolled down plus the 
complete line. I remember seeing this years ago in ff/mozilla but not 
recently. Don't know if this is caused by ff, mobo, drivers or f12. 
(This is observed before a suspend is attempted.)

With mesa experimental, compiz enable fails. Also, in kde desktop effect 
enable, can only enable raster compositiong and not OpenGL compositing 
(which disables certain features).

Also, Xorg.0.log does show that the driver is RADEON which possibly 
replace VESA when it is unloaded, so I think that is OK.

The name of the video device is "ATI Radeon HD 4200" which I have 
corrected above.

-gene
gd(dot)smth (at) mail of googel