To Any One Who is Having ATI issue Here is Some Help

[gorellana09]

Catalyst 11.12 have been released http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx . Can someone confirm if the Ati + Mint 12 problems have been fixed? I cannot since I got so frustrated I went back to Mint 11.

[afulm]

Catalyst 11.12 have been released http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx . Can someone confirm if the Ati + Mint 12 problems have been fixed? I cannot since I got so frustrated I went back to Mint 11.

Just installed. Problems remain, doesn't seem just as bad though.

[tbruff13]

Catalyst 11.12 have been released http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx . Can someone confirm if the Ati + Mint 12 problems have been fixed? I cannot since I got so frustrated I went back to Mint 11.

Just installed. Problems remain, doesn't seem just as bad though.

I will test with my card in the meantime if you have not signed my petition can you please do so.

[raccoss]

That' why my desktop is annoyantly messy, whith unreadeable bars and menu?

Not needing so much graphic performance, would work if I reinstall Mint without installing the ATI drivers?

Or is it easier to de-install Gnome 3?

Or so, what else?

Thanks.

[714snoopy]

That' why my desktop is annoyantly messy, whith unreadeable bars and menu?

Not needing so much graphic performance, would work if I reinstall Mint without installing the ATI drivers?

Or is it easier to de-install Gnome 3?

Or so, what else?

Thanks.

I finally installed 11.12 ATI driver as well. Still see the same artifacts and slanted text. Still see the shell just up and restart for no apparent reason. However, I've not seen the complete freeze-crash as before ... yet.

raccoss; You can keep Mint 12 installed, just log in with a different session: Gnome Classic or MATE. Between installing 11.12 drivers, I was using the "fall-back" GUI mode (Gnome Classic) and it worked perfectly without crashes or weirdness. I really think there is some stability issues with Gnome Shell and not really with the ATI drivers. Anyone using Nvidia cards have issues like this?

[tbruff13]

I did help someone yesterday who had some issues with ubuntu 11.10 and nvidia not sure if that means anything or not, but you are right this does seem like a Gnome 3 issue. I mean the drivers work in KDE XFCE LXDE and Gnome Shell Unity. Maybe I should try contacting the Gnome team again. Can someone shed some light on what my next move should be.

PS. We are up to 55 signs for the petition. We are more then halfway to 100 nice job guys. Thanks for all of the support with this issue. http://goo.gl/4XkKF. I will contact the Gnome Team again and see what they say

[tbruff13]

I have not contacted the Gnome Team yet because I wanted to do more testing on the new driver, but I am having issues the terminal is slanted, and i am having issues with Chromium as well. No more corrupted text though. I know I am late to the game, but I had to wait for Christmas break before I could do any full on testing. I will be contacting the Gnome Team tonight and see what they say.

PS. we are up to 64 signs on the petition this is outstanding thank you guys for your support. Soon I will be able to send this to AMD.

[tbruff13]

I have not contacted the Gnome Team yet because I wanted to do more testing on the new driver, but I am having issues the terminal is slanted, and i am having issues with Chromium as well. No more corrupted text though. I know I am late to the game, but I had to wait for Christmas break before I could do any full on testing. I will be contacting the Gnome Team tonight and see what they say.

PS. we are up to 64 signs on the petition this is outstanding thank you guys for your support. Soon I will be able to send this to AMD.

[cfr42]

I have Linux Mint 12 installed on a machine bitten by this bug. In addition, the open source drivers are unusable except with KMS disabled (which makes gnome 3 available only in fallback mode and slows everything up). AMD's latest drivers do better than the open source ones - I can boot with a display without passing nomodeset. But the starting point was pretty low.

The version of fglrx offered by Mint's "additional drivers" rendered the machine unusable - it booted but with no VGA output. Much like the open source drivers but I couldn't get anything and ended up re-installing Mint.

Here's a partial description with some further links: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=90486.

Graphics Card: ATI Device 9644 bus-ID: 00:01.0 X.Org 1.10.4 driver fglrx Resolution 1600x900@60.0hz
GLX Renderer AMD Radeon HD 6410D GLX Version 4.2.11318 - CPC Direct Rendering Yes

Basically, gnome-shell continually segfaults. Switching from one window to another, clicking on anything outside the active window, randomly for no obvious reason at all... I also see significant corruption as if the screen is mis-repainted on application switch, use of menu... In one case, I ended with an almost entirely black screen with a thick green line at the bottom starting about 1/5th from the left. It looked like the top left portion of the desktop wallpaper though it is hard to be sure. Nothing helped but the power switch. I also am seeing corruption in menus rendering them unreadable. They look as if the test is displayed in some odd, slanted font which has been stretched diagonally.

I would be happy to use the open source drivers instead if they worked. It seems that Ubuntu is getting bug fixes but I have no idea when or if these will make it to Mint...

Note that to install Mint in the first place, I had to use nomodeset for the live DVD.

Happy to provide further info. What do you want to know? The main symptom is gnome-shell crashing but this is only visible as a flicker on the screen. It is the logs that tell the story so I'm not sure what to get a screenshot _of_. And I suspect that trying to take a screenshot of anything else will cause gnome-shell to crash and the view to disappear.

[gorellana09]

Catalyst 12.1 have been released http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx can someone confirm if the gnome issues have been fixed? I went back to Mint 11 so I can't check.

[chazdg24]

I am interested in the same issue and exactly how to remove 11.12 and install Catalyst 12.1 for Lisa. Also, I am using Cinnamon exclusively. Are there any issues I should know about?

[gorellana09]

Ok I have good news. I went on my machine with Mint 12 and uninstalled Catalyst 11.12 and installed 12.1. Gnome 3 NO MORE ISSUES!!!! everything worked fine. Cinnamon has some flickering but the italics, and messed up texts issues are gone. Standard Gnome 3 works with no issues at all though.

One small problem, when I open the Catalyst control panel it says I am still using 11.12. My guess is I am not completely removing it and leaving traces of the old drivers behind. I know that 12.1 is installing though because the Ati + Gnome issues are fixed.

If someone can also like the previous poster please tell me how to completely remove the old ATI drivers and all traces of it.

[chazdg24]

This is what I did for 11.12. I'm inclined to do the same.

http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/12/how-to-install-amd-catalyst-1112-linux.html

[bradb21]

I finally gave up on this nightmare that is ATI and picked up and Nvidia card and ditched ATI. I've always used and looked for Nvidia video on my systems up until I bought my current setup. I've never had video issues with Nvidia and various Linux flavors until now with this ATI piece. What a pain!

[chazdg24]

I just installed 12.1 and am quite happy with both Cinnamon and Gnome 3.2. Both are fast and smooth with no tearing. By the way, when did Gnome 3.2 get a bottom Menu ala Cinnamon? I can live with Gnome with that bottom menu.

[chassum]

Just read a brief review of the Catalyst 12.1 driver here:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTA0ODM

Key sentence for me was: "The known issues still outstanding in the Catalyst 12.1 world is GNOME Shell doesn't work with dual-head mode."

[Klaw117]

I have two questions about this. First, how do I install this? I downloaded the .run file from the AMD website, but when I run it, it opens a gedit window and at the top, it says "Loading amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86_64.run from ~/Downloads" with a progress bar beneath it. I've left it on for half an hour and the progress bar is barely halfway to the end. Is it supposed to take this long? Second, in case something goes wrong, how do I uninstall the driver?

[chazdg24]

I have two questions about this. First, how do I install this? I downloaded the .run file from the AMD website, but when I run it, it opens a gedit window and at the top, it says "Loading amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86_64.run from ~/Downloads" with a progress bar beneath it. I've left it on for half an hour and the progress bar is barely halfway to the end. Is it supposed to take this long? Second, in case something goes wrong, how do I uninstall the driver?

Check out the website I used above. It was painless.

[Graes]

I have two questions about this. First, how do I install this? I downloaded the .run file from the AMD website, but when I run it, it opens a gedit window and at the top, it says "Loading amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86_64.run from ~/Downloads" with a progress bar beneath it. I've left it on for half an hour and the progress bar is barely halfway to the end. Is it supposed to take this long? Second, in case something goes wrong, how do I uninstall the driver?

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... tion_Guide

here you can find all you need.

btw i tried the new 12.1 drivers and well, font\panel bugs are gone but, with cinnamon, windows effects are all messed up.
and the overall performance on menus and such are much worse than with the open-source drivers.

guess my next pc will have a nvidia card

[Klaw117]

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Oneiric_Installation_Guide

here you can find all you need.

btw i tried the new 12.1 drivers and well, font\panel bugs are gone but, with cinnamon, windows effects are all messed up.
and the overall performance on menus and such are much worse than with the open-source drivers.

guess my next pc will have a nvidia card

Thanks for the info, but I've given up on this. I just tried it and it destroyed my Linux partition. I thought it would work for me since I don't use Cinnamon, but I was way off. I've gone back to Windows for the time being since I can't effectively use my Linux partition without having my AMD video card eat up my laptop's battery life. Without a working driver, it stays on and eats up all the power.