System settings > Desktop > Enable desktop effects causes fglrx to cycle

[dave selby]

2009/5/7 Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at ubuntu.com>:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 09:01, dave selby <dave6502 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Still having the same problem, in addition around one in every 5-10
>> KDE starts, when the KDE startup screen has finished the screen goes
>> totally blank and even ctrl-alt-f1 does zip, I suspect this is the
>> display driver as well.
>
> You are lucky that you managed to start a desktop, for most people the
> fglrx driver just freezes the PC at KDM start. It does so for me, and
> I have the same graphic card than your wife's PC.
>
>> vanda at vanda-system:~$ sudo lshw | grep display -nA 10
>> 96:           *-display
>> 97-                description: VGA compatible controller
>> 98-                product: RV635 PRO AGP [Radeon HD 3650]
>> 99-                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
>> 100-                physical id: 0
>> 101-                bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>> 102-                version: 00
>> 103-                width: 32 bits
>> 104-                clock: 66MHz
>> 105-                capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 bus_master cap_list
>> 106-                configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=255
>> mingnt=8 module=fglrx
>> vanda at vanda-system:~$
>>
>> Any ideas anyone ?
>
> Well, yes, see this bug report:
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/314600
>
> The only possibility is to use the free Radeon driver for now and
> either disable the desktop effects or only have a minimal set of
> effects by using the XRender compositing and wait till ATI provides a
> working fglrx driver :(

Many thanks for replying,

I was unaware of the bug, at least now I know it is not me configuring
something incorrectly :),
Radeon driver here I come,

Cheers

Dave




> Regards, Myriam.
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