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Since two weeks (or so) my screen flickers every couple of seconds, which makes the system almost unusable. The flickering happens at irregular intervals, mostly when windows get repainted. It always flickers when I open a new window, but as long as I only type in a single line it doesn't (it flickers on line breaks). Interestingly, the compositing effect on ALT-Tab (on KDE) causes the screen to flicker only on invocation, but as long as I continue to cycle through the windows there is no flicker anymore.
Of course I've queried the internet for these warnings, but I'm still not sure what causes them. It seems there has been a problem with linux 4.4 and the driver at the time, but apparently those issues have been fixed in fall 2015.
radeon is a family of open source graphics drivers for older AMD/ATI Radeon graphics cards. Cards based on Graphics Core Next (GCN) 2.0 "Sea Islands" are also fully supported by the newer AMDGPU driver, which also features experimental support for GCN1.1 (Southern Islands). Neither this nor the AMDGPU article cover installation and configuration of the closed source drivers (see the next paragraph).
Be aware AMD has dropped the support for closed source fglrx drivers (called Catalyst on Windows). The fglrx drivers only work with certain versions of the X server. This is contrary to the open source drivers, which are now compiled against the system's currently installed kernel and X server.
Portage uses the VIDEO_CARDS variable for enabling support for various graphics cards. Setting the VIDEO_CARDS variable to radeon (see the feature matrix above) then asking Portage to rebuild the @world set will pull in the correct driver for older radeon cards:
Note this tables mainly applies to x86 machines. We make a best effort to support PowerPC/Sun cards with ?OpenFirmware, but we cannot always support these due to Apple/Sun hardcoding most of the details in their drivers.
The new radeonhd driver was initially to offer the sole support for R500/R600/R700 cards, but nowadays also the radeon driver supports those. It's therefore overlapping with radeon's card support, and radeonhd might be merged to radeon at some point if there's no use for a separate "newer" driver.
Until driver version 6.7, if you wanted to use HW accelerated 3D on both heads of a dualheaded radeon card, you had to use the Radeon MergedFB option by AlexDeucher. Since version 6.7, the driver supports Randr 1.2, which allows screen hot (un)plugging, and dynamic multiheads. Just try "xrandr --auto" to get to biggest possible mode. A big "Virtual" option is needed to allow big multiheads.
Yesterday we told you about TMDS fixes for the Avivo driver to hopefully correct display-related problems. Well, a bug crept into the system when the TMDS1 registers were being adjusted when it should have been the TMDS2 registers. This bug was corrected this morning so check out the latest development code if you're still running into problems. Report your results in our open-source ATI/AMD forum with the results, where the lead Avivo developer is an active member of the Phoronix community.
Jerome Glisse (the lead Avivo driver developer) has fixed TMDS issues with the ATI Radeon X1000 series hardware. The latest Avivo git driver changes how the TMDS is programmed (see the git commit for more information). Another git commit updated the supported chipset list against AMD's official list, so all products in the ATI Radeon X1000 "R500" series should now have a PCI ID entry. Those of you experiencing any problems with your display in the past, be sure to try out this latest code and report back with your findings. Discuss in the forums.
With a security vulnerability in ATI's Catalyst driver installer for Microsoft Windows Vista being exposed (dubbed the "purple pill"), engineers have been scurrying to address this problem. The Inquirer is reporting that the patched driver will be released tomorrow (Monday) and that it will be Catalyst 7.8 that gets released. Going by past tradition and what was shared in The Truth About ATI/AMD and Linux, if the ATI Catalyst 7.8 driver for Windows is released tomorrow, so will the next ATI Linux "fglrx 8.40" driver.
A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000 Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release. Talking with Jerome Glisse (the main Avivo developer), the v0.1.0 release is postponed until he or another willing open-source developer fixes issues with the Radeon X1200, X1300, X1400, and X1900 to allow for properly setting the TMDS on these graphics cards. The meaning of a few important registers are still not known. Jerome hasn't had time to work on the Avivo driver recently nor does he know when he will the available time. It looks like the Avivo open-source project could use some extra help.
At SIGGRAPH in San Diego, AMD has introduced five new ATI FireGL workstation graphics cards. These new R600-based FireGL products support Microsoft DirectX 10.0, OpenGL 2.1, up to 320 stream processors, AutoDetect functionality, and a 2GB frame-buffer. In 3D workstation benchmarks the new FireGL graphics cards are over 300% faster than their previous generation GPUs. These new AMD/ATI FireGL cards include the V3600, V5600, V7600, V8600, and the V8650. The FireGL V3600 will sell for $299 USD while the flagship V8650 will cost $2,799 USD. Availability is expected next month and for these new FireGL graphics cards you can expect Linux support to come with the new fglrx driver.
Earlier today we mentioned the recent xf86-video-ati driver commits and now David Airlie has announced on his blog that version 6.6.193 of the open-source Radeon driver has been released. Fixed in the xf86-video-ati 6.6.193 driver is 3D acceleration support for the ATI RS480 chipsets when using the newer version of Mesa as well as better VBL support for lowering power consumption. Like most software releases, there is also a number of bug fixes and code cleanups.
Aside from minor changes to the ATI Radeon driver man-page last month, there hasn't been too much to report on with this open-source X.Org driver (though there has been a wealth of happenings with the Avivo R500 driver). Today, however, there was some Radeon driver updates to the git tree. Luc Verhaegen had cleaned up PortInfo to CRTC mapping and sanitizing blanking and DPMS functions. Meanwhile, David Airlie cleaned up pieces of the DPMS/blank register programming, added "-Wall" for the GCC argument, removed unused variables, and updated the configuration file for what will be the ATI 6.6.193 driver release. All this work had occurred in the xf86-video-ati tree.
The GATOS project has long been known as the path to take for enabling TV output support with the open-source X.Org driver on the Radeon 8500 to 9250 (R200) series, but soon you may no longer need to worry about the GATOS patch. Hanno has announced on the project mailing list that all of those involved with the GATOS project have agreed to move away from the GPL in favor of the MIT/X11 license. This relicensing makes it possible for the GATOS code to be merged with the X.Org Radeon R200 driver.
If you've been unable to run the new fglrx 8.39.4 driver with Fedora 7 x86_64, mmastrac on our forums has written a guide for fixing the fglrx driver with 64-bit Fedora 7. A bit of hex editing is all that's involved for this support. The 32-bit version of Fedora 7 should work "out of the box" with the fglrx 8.39.4 driver. For help and discussion, check out our AMD/ATI Linux Forum.
With the fglrx 8.39.4 driver (or newer), there's a chance you may run into a watermark (similar to the AMD testing watermark) saying that your hardware is unsupported when in fact it is supported. If you run into this unsupported hardware watermark, it's likely that /etc/ati/control is missing. If that's the case for you, try reinstalling the driver or manually copying the control file. The driver contents can be extracted using the --extract argument and the control file is located in common/etc/ati/. If you experience this problem, create a thread in the Phoronix Forums with what distribution you are using and how you had installed the driver initially (and whether adding the control file had removed the watermark).
This morning AMD has re-released the 8.39.4 fglrx driver after it was taken down last week over watermark problems. This latest 8.39.4 revision available from the AMD website should properly produce the needed signature to remove this small annoyance from the display. No other changes had went into this release. If you run into any problems with the 8.39.4 driver, be sure to stop by the Phoronix Forums.
If you've been experiencing the AMD watermark issue with the 8.39.4 Linux driver, there is an unofficial workaround to correct this problem. As is outlined in this Phoronix Forums post, you can obtain the signature value from the ATI/AMD driver package and then manually place it in /etc/ati/signature to remove the "testing use only" watermark. This is not the official workaround sanctioned by AMD and the 8.39.4 fglrx driver was removed from the AMD website earlier today. Find out more in the Phoronix Forums. 2ff7e9595c
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