Bug 73783

Summary: Flashing and freezing (AMD Radeon HD 8330)
Product: xorg Reporter: grave_123
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: blocker    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description grave_123 2014-01-19 05:07:55 UTC 
Hello, it took me awhile to find out where to go for help with ATI drivers. I'm coming from a long line of NVIDIA.

So I just acquired a new laptop for school.
It's an ASUS X550E with a AMD Radeon HD 8330 graphics card in it.
I could not get X on Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint to function, even with fglrx (Spelling?).

Now, I am using OpenSUSE 13.1 and it worked fine for a bit but then I had the following issues:

 First, the screen would blank as if the machine was suspending the screen and then the display would turn off for 1 second and then I could see what I was working on/at again.

Then, the whole display would lock up and I could not even get to an emergency terminal.

 
Right now, I'm using the non-free driver fglrx and it's working fine but I'm only using this temporarily until the issues are resolved.

I ultimately want to use the FOSS driver and not proprietary drivers.
Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2014-01-20 07:10:02 UTC 
Please attach the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and the output of dmesg from running the open source drivers.
Comment 2 grave_123 2014-01-20 16:03:59 UTC 
Created attachment 92466 [details]
Log of dmesg

Also, I forgot to mention that this laptop has a touch screen.
Comment 3 grave_123 2014-01-20 16:06:07 UTC 
I don't seem to have the Xorg log file you requested. Is there another directory it might be in?
Comment 4 Michel Dänzer 2014-01-21 02:19:42 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't seem to have the Xorg log file you requested. Is there another
> directory it might be in?

Not that I know of. The number might be different though, and there might be a suffix such as .old.

Which desktop environment are you using?

You might want to try the latest upstream releases of the kernel, LLVM, Mesa and xf86-video-ati.
Comment 5 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 07:44:33 UTC 
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