Graphics ok in "gnome failsafe" mode, but not in standard OK

[kloispetie]

Hello!

I'm a total newbie with difficulties with my Ati Radio graphics card.
I installed the EnvyNG software tool, and with that, the ati drivers. afterwards, I followed these steps: http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=763649
(now somehow I can't login on that forum), because I had a "flickering" video playback.

When I log into the standard session of linux mint, I still have the same problem, but when I login to the "gnome failsafe" session, all video playback works fine.

Anyone has an idea?

Thanks a lot!

[Husse]

This is odd

Ati Radio

I hope this is a typo for ATI Radeon

I installed the EnvyNG software tool

Envy has been there by default for a long time now in Mint - what did you do?
More facts are needed
Which ATI card?
Which Mint exactly?
run lspci in a terminal and post the result (right click for copy)

[kloispetie]

I mean Ati Radeon indeed.
After installing Linux mint 5, my graphics were not that good, so I searched the internet and tried to install the latest drivers from the Ati Website. After rebooting, I only got a 800*600 resolution, so something went wrong. Therefore, I once again installed the drivers with EnvyNG. Now my resolution is ok, but still: visual effects are allmost impossible, and whitchever video file or dvd I try to play, I allways get a "flickering" video.

The result from my lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port
00:19.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
00:1c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Audio device: ALi Corporation High Definition Audio/AC'97 Host Controller
00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to LPC Controller (rev 31)
00:1e.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:1f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
00:1f.1 RAID bus controller: ALi Corporation ULi 5287 SATA (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV515 [Radeon X1300]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV515 [Radeon X1300] (Secondary)
02:15.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
02:16.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

[Husse]

If I'm not mistaken RV515 [Radeon X1300] is a low end card and the motherboard is definitely low end. (Sorry I don't want to offend you) It's ALi chip and ALi has a solid reputation for not being very good
I think you have to turn off Compiz especially when you watch video - this is unfortunately something that a lot of people have to do
(Control Center > Appearance > Visual effects > none)

[kloispetie]

that solved the problem indeed. Thank you very much.
I'm not offended by the way