Flickering video on Asus motherboard with ATI video

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have Kubuntu 8.10 installed on a machine with an ASUS motherboard,
> onboard ATI graphics:
> http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=639&l4=0&model=2064&modelmenu=1

Um, I followed that link and this seems a bit dodgy:
"Hybrid CrossFireX
Greatly boost the graphics performance with onboard graphics and discreted card.
*Due to AMD Hyvrid CFX driver is not ready, you can´t use this funtion
right now. When the driver is OK , we will put it on www.asus.com as
soon as possible. You can enjoy this function by update the new driver
and bios."

Discreting a card sounds painful...

> The system graphics seem very sluggish (switching photos in digikam is
> slow) and video flickers. Running "aticonfig --initial" helped
> somewhat, but not completely. I am using the proprietary fglrx driver.
> Opening the Proprietary Drivers windows informs me that the machine is
> using "a different version" of the driver, for what that's worth.
> Looking in Adept, I have the only version available, installed.

If the vesa driver works (no flicker), than it's likely an issue with
fglrx.  The digikam issue may or may not be related - that could be
caused by something else entirely.

Chris