[Mageia-discuss] Glitch with nvidia FX 5500 card driver

Thu Jan 19 12:05:18 CET 2012

Al 19/01/2012 11:51, En/na Florian Hubold ha escrit:
+> Am 19.01.2012 09:55, schrieb Luca Olivetti:
+>> Al 19/01/2012 3:43, En/na TJ ha escrit:
+>>>
+>>> After that, I tried turning off the desktop effects, but that was even
+>>> worse in its own way because while the menu scrambling wasn't as
+>>> prominent, when I went to shut things down the background went away and
+>>> something from out of an old cache was displayed.
+>>
+>> Something similar is happening here, when the shutdown menu shows, the
+>> background is "scrambled" (colored noise), but it's a completely different
+>> card (an acer aspire 722 with a radeon hd6250) with a completely different
+>> driver (catalyst driver downloaded from amd, the one from the repositories
+>> didn't work).
+>> I didn't touch desktop effects at all, so I cannot say if they are enabled or
+>> not.
+>> Maybe the root cause of the problem is similar.
+> nonfree radeon-firmware package is installed, and either the initrds have been
+> regenerated since (via "bootloader-config --action rebuild-initrds" as root)
+> or you've done a kernel update since?
+
+No kernel updates, I just let harddrake install the propietary module 
+and it didn't work (it didn't recognize the card and fell back to vesa).
+I then downloaded the catalyst driver from amd and used its installer 
+(which probably messed up the system but it seems to work, though it 
+doesn't come back after a suspend).
+According to this page
+http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/202-ubuntu-acer-ao722
+the free driver should also work (and should have no problem with 
+suspend/resume), but it needs mesa 7.11 while mageia has 7.10.
+
+Bye
+-- 
+Luca
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