OpenSUSE Hardware :: 11.4 - Getting Periodic Flicker On The Display
Mar 16, 2011
I recently upgraded my desktop to 11.4 and kde 4.6.1 My desktop has : VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series] This is legacy ATI stuff, radeon driver loaded (as was in 11.3) and seems to be operating. I am getting a somewhat periodic (5 secs or so) flicker on the display, fast enough to be annoying but not fast enough to really affect anything.
I have seen several threads about short freezes, but realize that flicker and freeze might be a matter of speed and memory, etc. I tried suspending Desktop Effects, that may have reduced the frequency of the flicker but did not eliminate.
I have an Acer Aspire 5004 WLMi laptop with the SiS M760GX video chip. Under Gentoo the graphics worked perfectly but not so under my new Fedora 13 installation. There is enormous flicker with large regions where the pixels are miscolored. I used
Code: # X -configure to create the xorg.conf file which is here. It contains the same driver, SiS, which worked under Gentoo.
From version 11.3 to 11.4 now often occurs after a problem has already become annoying! My computer connects to internet through a router and sometimes after about 4, 5 hours going through the browser so I cannot reach Google or someone else's server Skype only stays connected!
This is not a hardware problem occurs because even after changing the router and the computer problem remains! When this happens the router has access to the Internet and other computer via wifi can connect without a problem! How to figure out where the problem comes? I attach the output of dmesg:
I checked this code in google and found that a similar prolem had people from the version 10.3 but I do not remember then I had this problem occur examples of 11.3.
openSUSE 11.3 KDE There is a frequent flicker on my screen. Some application OR notification just pops and disappears( giving an impression of a flicker ). How do i find out which application OR notification is it.
1. When playing flash videos in firefox, they'll flicker with black screen flashing for a split second over the video(This continues throughout the video)
2. However, if I do either of the following, the flicker goes away (only while doing one of these actions):
a. Continually move the mouse over the video (i.e. move back and forth in a "mouseover")
b. Put the mouse over the scrubber circle (which shows time lapsed and allows dragging to change location in video) such that the "hand" cursor appears. Once the cursor changes back to a pointer, it flickers again. but as long as I move the mouse over the scrubber circle, it'll stop the flickering (even without moving the mouse anymore) until the circle passes beyond the cursor again.
I get a window that shows a broken image which shifts to the left in bits - top half, bottom quarter, etc. - and the colours flicker wildly in separate parts of the image. The shell from which it was launched gives this output: Any of the controls I try gives me errors, such as:
Set Auto Exposure on error Set Auto Exposure on error Set Auto Exposure on error Set Auto Exposure on error
I closed this program and ran kopete, which showed me no image at all but gave this output on the shell: Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
I have just created a periodic maintenance schedule for friends using Windows XP, covering tasks needing to be done weekly, monthly, semi-annually and annually. That set me to wondering what maintenance my Kubuntu system needs. What periodic maintenance do you do?
I am trying to make a periodic boundary condition type function, using an existing class given to me in lecture notes, but am having some trouble! Effectively, I am trying to make an array such that, for a point in any row of a 2D matrix ("Matrix(i,j)"), the command "next_i[i]" will return "(i+1)%L", where L is the number of data points in the row. This will enable me to select a point to the right of any point in the matrix: "Matrix(next[i],j)"
I want to write a function that shall execute periodic. means if i set time 1 sec that function should execute in each 1 sec. let us call that function func1. But i dnt want to wait inside the func1 for that 1 sec. Meanwhile i want to run another function say func2 in background . some thing like less priority function. Whnever the time come to execute the periodic function func1 it has to go to func1 and then again in the waiting time , the second function func2 will resume. I wanted to know how to do it.. Can somebody tell me is it possible using signal in linux.
I have a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.4 64bit and I have installed the AMD Display drivers for my Radeon HD 5970. Everything seems to be working quite well. I have a multiple monitor setup (1280x1024 monitor and a 1920x1080 monitor).
I have my primary display set to 1920x1080, however when I try to enable the second display, I get a CRTC error that the display is over the maximum (1920x1920). If I enable both monitors at lower resolutions, there is no problem.
I have done a fair bit of reading and have been unable to determine where this maximum is set, or how to change it. I'd like to be able to run both monitors at their native resolutions.
By freeze, I mean that the mouse can still move, but everything else behind it is frozen entirelyI can switch to a terminal with CTRL+ALT+F1, it's ... I guess... X or gnome-shell or something that's frozen? Not the whole OS thoughThese freezes last anywhere between 5 or 10 seconds and 3-5 minutesI can't predict when they will occur, but often, after a suspend/resume, they will start occuring much more frequently. Also, they often happen after I enter my password and press ENTER on the lock screen after a resume from suspend. But not exclusively -- they can happen at any other time when I'm doing pretty much anything in GNOME...
Things I've Tried...
When frozen, I've tried to CTRL+ALT+F1, login, and run gnome-shell --replace... [*[When frozen, I can successfully CTRL+ALT+F1 and run `service gdm restart`... with the obvious downside of losing everything I have open. But the screen responds immediately and I can log back in to GNOMEI tried running `Xorg -configure` to generate an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to edit, but received an error about not being able to generate configuration for multiple screens or something (I can retry and provide the exact error if this is a useful direction to try) is it the gnome-shell freezing? Is it X? Is it a problem with the X driver I'm using?
I have been having problems with Xserver crashes (goes into low graphics mode). On inspection of my .xsession-errors file, I get X IO fatal errors 5, 11 and/or 104. Somehow my computer is losing its connection with the xserver (connection reset by peer) What is causing this? Should I post a report to launchpad? This happened before and after a clean install and more often when I opened a full screen game (SDL or OpenGL) Here is my xsession errors after my last crash:
I have tripwire 2.4.1.2 running on one of our servers on a daily basis, and I was curious to know if it is good practice to periodically update the policy file. The reason for my asking that is while the daily reports that I get indicate there have been changes to files on a daily basis, there are also files that have not been modified for over a month. My thinking is an update of the policy file will establish an updated baseline, and those files that have not been changed for so long will not be reported on until they get changed again.
I keep noticing disk activity every roughly 1 to 3 seconds even though there is "nothing" going on. Of course, I run a number of "system" and "user" application packages - Apache2, MySQL, Browsers (Opera, IceWeasel), an SMB client and server, OpenOffice 3.0RC8 being the most prominent ones. I wonder what might be the cause for this constant disk activity which happens even when none of the applications do any noticeable work at all. Is there a way to determine the process that does those disk read/writes?
A few weeks ago, I upgraded one of our machines to the 64-bit server edition of 10.04. All went reasonably well (after some hoops to get it to properly recognize/mount the RAID + LVM partitions), but one of the things that confounded the installation process was login timeouts. From doing some research, I thought I'd gotten it solved by removing the checks for updated packages on login, but I either didn't get it done, or there's something else going on here.The issue is that the machine is headless and is actually a file & application server, but I do need to connect to it via ssh on a regular basis. However, the issue isn't related to SSH, as it also happens when I try and log in through the physical console too.
What happens is that every so often, login attempts will time out for a period of minutes, then they will suddenly start working again, instantly giving me my expected shell. Again, I suspect it is something with the way the motd junk is being generated, but having a server that prevents you from logging in is totally unacceptable. I've no idea how to go about debugging what happens because I don't see anything useful in any of the logs, and I don't have a way to trace the login process from outside. I'd love to hear what the problem actually is and how to prevent this from happening.
I have downloaded the ver10.04. I am running it on my laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce GO 7600 128MB graphics card. I am using the NVIDIA driver on the system. The screen flickers randomly after say every 1 min. By flickering I mean it just refreshes and goes blank for say 1ms during the refresh. It happens even more if I turn on CompViz option.
I;ve just bought a new machine, and installed Ubuntu 10.10.I've installed the latest nvidia drivers [URL] & vdpau, but can't seem to get rid of the flicker in video playback. There's a horizontal band across the screen thet jumps and flickers when the camera pans. I've tried using vlc, smplayer/gmplayer and xbmc, with various video outputs selected, but I'm getting similar results in all of them.
Machine spec:
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 870 Socket AM3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz Memory Kit Unbuffered CL9 AMD Athlon II X2 250 3.00GHz Socket AM3 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor Asus GeForce G210 512MB DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Low Profile Graphics Card
Anyone using flash with blogtv? I've got a Ubuntu 9.10 box with a nvidia 9400gt card running flash and have run into some weirdness. I get alot of flicker when viewing flash content on sites like blogTV. Also, cannot get my webcam going in blogtv. Webcam is a webcam pro 9000 and works flawless. The problem is adobe flash. I have researched and know that there are problems with flash and linux but whats interesting is that I also run a fedora 11 box and blogtv works fine. The video card in the fedora box is a nvidia 8400 and running flash.
On the Ubuntu box when you go to broadcast you get the flash permissions (allow blogtv permissions on camera) but the buttons do not work. It pretty much locks up in the flash widow only. Also, Viewing content on the site has a lot of flicker. Other sites do not have this flicker. Seems strange that my fedora box works with no problems but the Ubuntu box doesnt. Today Im going to try the beta flash (libflashplayer.so) from adobe version 10.1.51.66 and see what that produces.
I've tried both the x86 and x64 versions of Ubuntu 10.04 and installed the current Nvidia hardware drivers on both. Everything works fine until I enable SLI with the --sli=AFR or --sli=OnOnce SLI is enabled there is extreme flickering relating to anything graphical.Including Compiz effects and any opengl software.Disabling SLI returns the compy back to it's good self.I would love to utilize SLI, however can't seem to find a solution for this bug.
All is in the thread title. When I log back in after suspend or hibernate I get a lot of flickering on the screen. I noticed (I think) that it calms down a bit when streaming video from the net, if that gives any clue...
I'm using a dual boot with Vista basic/lucid lynx on an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.
I'm running two conkys through a .sh and they work great, but they flicker. the only way to stop the flickering is to put them in their own window. any ideas on how to stop the flickering code...
I am having a funky issue at login. When I enter my username/password at login with the GUI (I disabled the list of users some time ago) the screen will flicker then return me to the login screen. There is no notification of an error. It doesn't matter if I try the recovery console or safe mode there is the same issue when I try and login with this user. However, I can login with a different user open a console and su to that user that wouldn't login at the GUI.
I'm getting the occasional full-screen black flicker on my laptop, it's an Asus G73JW with an nVidia 460M card, running the restricted drivers. I've installed Gnome3, and so far like it more than Unity, but the flickering needs to stop
I've also noticed that some animations aren't as smooth as they should be, like when I hit the top-left corner to bring up the dock it studders just a wee bit.
I am getting a flicker when FC10 Live boots and then it just freezes. I am guessing that the video driver which is loaded when X starts is not the right one I have an nVidia GForce 7025.
essentially everything runs well, but at random points the screen randomly flickers and looks like an application window outline. After I use the system for a while eventually the screen goes blank, but not off, but I am forced to shutdownhe system as nothing happens with key combos. I'd be happy to add more information, but I am need help on where to go to find information on the system
I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 and the prime reason for giving it a go is due to the media center capability with apps such as Moovida and LinuxMce.
Unfortunately during video playback [either divx or flash] there appears to be a random line or lines which flickers on the screen when the video is in fullscreen mode.
I'm using an ATI x1900 video card and have tried using both Tote and VLC, and I have also tried installing the fglrx.
But, both with and without flgrx installed, under the section 'Device' in xorg.conf it says that the driver is 'vesa'.
I don't know how to disable the default ATI driver to enable fglrx, or whether I am going off on completely the wrong tanget and should be looking at something else.
Or is there better support for my type of card in Ubuntu 10 as I don't want to go back to Ubuntu 8 which is the last supported version of the os that ATI developed a driver for my card.
Lucid has been good to be so far, except for the fact that my screen flickers occasionally (I'd say once or twice every 30 minutes) I'm using an ASUS laptop with an INTEL GMA 4500MHD (It's this laptop. I read a bug report about the xserver-xorg-video-intel, but the issue was much more severe and marked as solved before Lucid was released.
I have LucidLynx installed on my eeepc 1005PE. I am currently using it under the gnome interface but i also have the notebook version of it installed (probably because i got a notebook remix of it, not quite sure). All is well except for the following: after i power up my notebook, login and i can see the panel i plug the power cord in. And the my screen starts flickering in orangeblack colors. Nothing i do seems to take it out of this state but a good old hard-reboot.
I was on earlier 9.x version of ubuntu with following configuration working perfectly: IBM ThinkPad T60 with ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 VGA graphics card (found it from lspci) With an external Dell 19" monitor attached to it. I upgraded yesterday to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS and now the Dell monitor screen keeps flickering all the time! I always work with an external bigger monitor attached to my laptop as working for long hours on the smaller screen of the laptop gives me headache. The frustrating point is, this setting was working perfectly until I was on Ubuntu 9.x, I upgraded to 10.04 LTS and this has stopped working.
Screen flicker Ubuntu 10.10 After installing Ubuntu (Version 10.10 DVD �amd 64Ubuntu 10.10 live DVD). On the following hardware Gigabyte GA-K8VT800-RH motherboard 3GB ram AMD Sempron 3400 cpu. ATI Radeon X1600 Pro Video card. 256M ddr2 AGP VGA/TV0/DV1-1 p/no 882c85-03
The screen resolution looked very good with all screen resolutions working well The colours and fonts very clear. All other device drivers worked 100%. But unfortunately the display flashes about every 10 seconds and the partial beak up of the display only lasts a fraction of a second and very distracting and is unusable. Testing with Ubuntu 10.10 live DVD. With this months Linux Format Magazine also exhibits this problem. However deleting the partition and installing Ubuntu 10.04 Beta1 DVD -386. And all updates downloaded. Works 100% with no screen flicker.
