Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:50:52 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2028075052.ga13...@panix.com: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your ISO-8859-* locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in all UTF-8 fonts, and make those your apps, wm, DE etc defaults. ..duh, man xrefresh should give you another set of fix ideas. The only installed locale is en-us.UTF-8. I have no earthly use for any of the ISO-8859 fonts shown by aptitude--they're for languages I do not use. ..and 'xrandr --verbose' says? Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x41 Timestamp: 22915 Subpixel: no subpixels Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 filter: load detection: 1 (0x0001) range: (0,1) LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (0x43) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 256mm x 144mm Identifier: 0x42 Timestamp: 22915 Subpixel: horizontal rgb Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0 Brightness: 1.0 Clones: CRTC: 0 CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 filter: EDID: 00000daf0011 0913010380190e780acf459059579529 1f50540001010101010101010101 0101010101019c19562a5830070e 1390101800fe004e3131 3642362d4c30320a202000fe0043 4d4f0a20202020202020202000fe 004e31313642362d4c30320a20200065 scaling mode: Full supported: None Full Center Full aspect 1366x768 (0x43) 65.6MHz -HSync -VSync *current +preferred h: width 1366 start 1373 end 1387 total 1408 skew0 clock 46.6KHz v: height 768 start 769 end 772 total 776 clock 60.0Hz ..ok, try one of the resolutions below and see if one of those fixes the overwriting, if that works, you should be able to make a slightly slower 1366x768 modeline work, backing off to say 46.5kHz and 59.9Hz or some such. ..do you have grandr installed? The cli way: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 ..to make new 1366x768 modelines the _old_ way, install videogen and have fun tweaking your new modelines. ;o) ..dirty search line: 'apt-cache search --full modelines |less' 1280x720 (0x44) 74.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1280 start 1344 end 1472 total 1664 skew0 clock 44.8KHz v: height 720 start 723 end 728 total 748 clock 59.9Hz 1152x768 (0x45) 71.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1152 start 1216 end 1328 total 1504 skew0 clock 47.7KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 798 clock 59.8Hz 1024x768 (0x46) 63.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1024 start 1072 end 1176 total 1328 skew0 clock 47.8KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 775 total 798 clock 59.9Hz 800x600 (0x47) 38.2MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 832 end 912 total 1024 skew0 clock 37.4KHz v: height 600 start 603 end 607 total 624 clock 59.9Hz 848x480 (0x48) 31.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 848 start 872 end 952 total 1056 skew0 clock 29.8KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 493 total 500 clock 59.7Hz 720x480 (0x49) 26.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 720 start 744 end 808 total 896 skew0 clock 29.9KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 493 total 500 clock 59.7Hz 640x480 (0x4a) 23.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 640 start 664 end 720 total 800 skew0 clock 29.7KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 487 total 500 clock 59.4Hz -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2028154549.3e7f0...@nb6.lan
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:13:33 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2026131333.ga5...@panix.com: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..are you using the radeon driver? Yes. (2 more alternatives to try, radeonhd and fglrx, I have no experience with those.) Neither exists in wheezy, according to aptitude. The radeonhd homepage says that most distros are now dumping it in favor of radeon. ..we're all ok with that. ;o) ..do you use non-UTF-8 fonts or locales? Try go UTF-8-only. Can you explain in more detail? I haven't done much with this in the past and web searches are hard when my screen looks like this: ..try plug in another screen and see what happens. ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your ISO-8859-* locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in all UTF-8 fonts, and make those your apps, wm, DE etc defaults. See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files ..show us lshw's *-display:0 section. *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 5 bus info: pci@:01:05.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 resources: irq:18 memory:d000-dfff memory:f010-f010 ioport:9000(size=256) memory:f000-f00f *-pci:1 (Indentation above as shown by lshw.) Thanks. ..and 'xrandr --verbose' says? ..also chk KMS, http://www.google.com/search?q=Debian+radeon+KMS is a good starting point, http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting and will be set by default in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf: options radeon modeset=1 ..chk the other ones (/etc/modprobe.d/*.conf) too for conflicting configs or fb etc drivers that should have been blacklisted. ..also chk bug reports, a fix is probably on its way, I saw mention of linux-3.1 not working with radeon. ..I had a vaguely similar issue a coupla years back that I fixed making new and slightly slower modelines, I was pushing my card too hard and got white flickering, but only in FlightGear. FG is fairly tough on graphics hw and may help diagnose it. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2028020115.7b8dc...@nb6.lan
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your ISO-8859-* locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in all UTF-8 fonts, and make those your apps, wm, DE etc defaults. The only installed locale is en-us.UTF-8. I have no earthly use for any of the ISO-8859 fonts shown by aptitude--they're for languages I do not use. ..and 'xrandr --verbose' says? Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x41 Timestamp: 22915 Subpixel: no subpixels Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 filter: load detection: 1 (0x0001) range: (0,1) LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (0x43) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 256mm x 144mm Identifier: 0x42 Timestamp: 22915 Subpixel: horizontal rgb Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0 Brightness: 1.0 Clones: CRTC: 0 CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 filter: EDID: 00000daf0011 0913010380190e780acf459059579529 1f50540001010101010101010101 0101010101019c19562a5830070e 1390101800fe004e3131 3642362d4c30320a202000fe0043 4d4f0a20202020202020202000fe 004e31313642362d4c30320a20200065 scaling mode: Full supported: None Full Center Full aspect 1366x768 (0x43) 65.6MHz -HSync -VSync *current +preferred h: width 1366 start 1373 end 1387 total 1408 skew0 clock 46.6KHz v: height 768 start 769 end 772 total 776 clock 60.0Hz 1280x720 (0x44) 74.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1280 start 1344 end 1472 total 1664 skew0 clock 44.8KHz v: height 720 start 723 end 728 total 748 clock 59.9Hz 1152x768 (0x45) 71.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1152 start 1216 end 1328 total 1504 skew0 clock 47.7KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 798 clock 59.8Hz 1024x768 (0x46) 63.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1024 start 1072 end 1176 total 1328 skew0 clock 47.8KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 775 total 798 clock 59.9Hz 800x600 (0x47) 38.2MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 832 end 912 total 1024 skew0 clock 37.4KHz v: height 600 start 603 end 607 total 624 clock 59.9Hz 848x480 (0x48) 31.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 848 start 872 end 952 total 1056 skew0 clock 29.8KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 493 total 500 clock 59.7Hz 720x480 (0x49) 26.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 720 start 744 end 808 total 896 skew0 clock 29.9KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 493 total 500 clock 59.7Hz 640x480 (0x4a) 23.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 640 start 664 end 720 total 800 skew0 clock 29.7KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 487 total 500 clock 59.4Hz -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2028075052.ga13...@panix.com
Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X. Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't fully activate because of my system's limitations. Afterward it activated and immediately corrupted the video horribly. I switched to a fallback session, which will remain uncorrupted for up to two minutes before becoming corrupted somewhat less horribly. Then I tried Openbox, which takes a few minutes longer to corrupt, then becomes utterly unreadable. See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files Short of reverting to unaccelerated video, any suggestions? I'm running Debian Wheezy, above system with 2 gigabytes of RAM, using the AMD64 kernel. LSPCI reports: root@cf-gw:~# lspci | grep -i vga 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] No xorg.conf at the moment. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2026123734.ga7...@panix.com
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:37:34 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X. Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't fully activate because of my system's limitations. Afterward it activated and immediately corrupted the video horribly. I switched to a fallback session, which will remain uncorrupted for up to two minutes before becoming corrupted somewhat less horribly. Then I tried Openbox, which takes a few minutes longer to corrupt, then becomes utterly unreadable. See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files Wow... Short of reverting to unaccelerated video, any suggestions? (...) Try by disabling KMS (append nomodeset with no quotes to the kernel's line at the GRUB menu) and check if it makes any difference. Regardless the result, I would file a bug for this. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.26.12.48...@gmail.com
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:37:34 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2026123734.ga7...@panix.com: So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X. ..are you using the radeon driver? (2 more alternatives to try, radeonhd and fglrx, I have no experience with those.) Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't fully activate because of my system's limitations. Afterward it activated and immediately corrupted the video horribly. I switched to a fallback session, which will remain uncorrupted for up to two minutes before becoming corrupted somewhat less horribly. Then I tried Openbox, which takes a few minutes longer to corrupt, then becomes utterly unreadable. ..do you use non-UTF-8 fonts or locales? Try go UTF-8-only. See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files Short of reverting to unaccelerated video, any suggestions? I'm running Debian Wheezy, above system with 2 gigabytes of RAM, using the AMD64 kernel. LSPCI reports: root@cf-gw:~# lspci | grep -i vga 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] No xorg.conf at the moment. ..show us lshw's *-display:0 section. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2026140600.7f95a...@nb6.lan
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..are you using the radeon driver? Yes. (2 more alternatives to try, radeonhd and fglrx, I have no experience with those.) Neither exists in wheezy, according to aptitude. The radeonhd homepage says that most distros are now dumping it in favor of radeon. ..do you use non-UTF-8 fonts or locales? Try go UTF-8-only. Can you explain in more detail? I haven't done much with this in the past and web searches are hard when my screen looks like this: See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files ..show us lshw's *-display:0 section. *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 5 bus info: pci@:01:05.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 resources: irq:18 memory:d000-dfff memory:f010-f010 ioport:9000(size=256) memory:f000-f00f *-pci:1 (Indentation above as shown by lshw.) Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2026131333.ga5...@panix.com
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On my mobo there's an integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics. The proprietary driver never worked on older Debian, Ubuntu and Suse, that's why I got a Nvidia card for this board. Mobo M2A-VM HDMI, Chipset Northbridge AMD 690G, Southbridge ATI SB600 The Radeon FLOSS driver was ok. - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1322327814.2974.9.camel@debian
Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 06:16:54PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On my mobo there's an integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics. The proprietary driver never worked on older Debian, Ubuntu and Suse, that's why I got a Nvidia card for this board. Mobo M2A-VM HDMI, Chipset Northbridge AMD 690G, Southbridge ATI SB600 The Radeon FLOSS driver was ok. Kind of hard to add an Nvidia card to a netbook, though. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2027051213.ga19...@panix.com
