Problem with ATI driver of Sabayone 8 [Solved]

[dragon001]

Hi,

I have bought me a Acer Aspire 721 Netbook.
Here is the Hardware:
AMD Athlon II Neo K125 Processor
And AMD ATI HD4225 GPU Prozessor.
2 Gig of Ram
250Gig Harddrive
Broadcom 43225 WLAN Card.


I had to install the Kernel 3.1 because the Broadcom Driver (STA) is only available for 3.1.

either with Kernel 3.2 and 3.1 the included ATI driver creates from time to time a very funny picture.
I don't know how to discribe it.
It looks like the bottom right corner of the picture is taken and is set to the far left, the far left is placed on the right side.
It happens mostly only with windows that aren't fully maximised.
I also tried the binnary driver, but the same effect.

I had a very simmilar Problem with oher distributions. (Debian, Mint Linux, Fedora etc).
The only solution I had so far was to install the open source ati driver.
But I don't know how to do it with sabayone.
I hope you can help me


Chris

[Z0K4]

what is your output for:

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equo search ati-drivers

You should get 8-9 results... Pick one that ends with sabayon and that suits your kernel (I believe you mentioned 3.1.0)
So... for example if you want to install the one for 3.1.0 kernel you would do this:

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sudo equo install ati-drivers-11.12#3.1.0-sabayon

EDIT: I forgot to mention... you can not use both drivers (open source and proprietary) at the same time! You will have to either remove the one you already have, or blacklist it!

[dragon001]

I installed the driver as suggested in the post above.
I restarted the System and I still get these bugs.


Here's an image of the bug:

http://postimage.org/image/iyal1rir5/

[Fitzcarraldo]

The only solution I had so far was to install the open source ati driver.
But I don't know how to do it with sabayone.
I hope you can help me

The FGLRX driver is the closed-source driver from AMD. The FGLRX driver is also known as the 'AMD Catalyst driver for Linux'.

The open-source driver is called the Radeon driver. There are two open-source Radeon drivers: X.Org's xf86-video-ati driver which is not a kernel module (for installation instructions see the post Re: ATI Mobility Radeon X 1700 Драйверы! and take into account that the SL kernel version is different now to the one mentioned in that post), and the radeon kernel module (for installation instructions see Getting rid of Catalyst). In either case, you'll need to uninstall the closed-source FGLRX (ati-drivers package). Note also that you need to use (as root user) the command eselect opengl set xorg-x11. The command eselect opengl list should not show the asterisk against "ati", as that would mean the opengl libraries would be for the closed-source driver. Also, change Driver "fglrx" to Driver "ati" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the open-source driver.

[panli19]

I had similar video card problems after installing Sabayon 8 (actually, it wasn't that similar, my screen would go randomly pixelated for several seconds and then come back to normal), I did what you said, and now the problem is solved, but I think my gnome 3 went into fall back mode and now I only have a gnome 2 desktop. How can I get my gnome 3 back?

[dragon001]

Same problem. Gnome went into fallback mode.
I did both suggestions (ati + radeon driver).
Without the radeon stuff I would always get the gdm deadman screen (telling me something went wrong, but can't tell me what).


Chris

[Fitzcarraldo]

Try editing xorg.conf and a) adding Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" to the Section "Device" which specifies the video driver, b) adding Option "Composite" "Enable" in Section "Extensions", and c) adding Option "AIGLX" "on" in Section "ServerLayout".

[dragon001]

Added it, like you mentioned, but it didn't help at all.

Here's the xorg.conf

Section "Module"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "i2c"
Load "ddc"
Load "vbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
VertRefresh 43 - 60
HorizSync 28 - 80
EndSection


Section "Device"

Identifier "SabayonVga0"
Driver "ati"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
#BusID "PCI:01:05"
#Option "RenderAccel" "on"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
#Option "BusType" "PCI"
#Option "ColorTiling" "on"
#Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
# UseEvents is causing segmentation faults with
# NVIDIA 6xxx, 7xxx and >=275.xx.xx drivers
#Option "UseEvents" "True"
#Option "LogoPath" "/usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux-nvidia.png"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "SabayonVga0"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
#Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
ViewPort 0 0
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
ViewPort 0 0
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
ViewPort 0 0
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

EndSection


Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Main Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen 0"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

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

[Fitzcarraldo]

I have no idea, then. Any error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

I don't use GNOME 3. Does it have a configuration setting to switch on compositing/desktop effects?

If you're using the xf86-video-ati driver, are the opengl libraries set to xorg-x11? Are all the mesa libraries set to classic?

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# eselect mesa list

If they're not all set to classic, then:

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eselect mesa set 64bit r300 classic
eselect mesa set 64bit sw classic
eselect mesa set 32bit r300 classic
eselect mesa set 32bit r600 classic
eselect mesa set 32bit sw classic

or whatever the ones are that are set to gallium.

[dragon001]

I uploaded the Logfile, if this might help:

http://pastebin.com/E8zjGEDF

I set everything to classic but still no effect.
I hope you can see the Problem or maybe somebody else knows how to fix it.


Chris