Bug 239187 – >x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.40.4 - HP L2000 display flickers periodically

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Scott Alfter 2008-09-30 19:38:39 UTC]

I'd like to have both kernel version 2.6.26 and ati-drivers running on my notebook, which is of the aforementioned model, but every minute or two, the display blinks off and back on.  As you can imagine, this is more than a little bit annoying.  No errors show up in any of the logfiles I've checked.  xf86-video-ati doesn't exhibit this behavior, but it doesn't support 3D last time I checked (at least not on this chipset).  ati-drivers 8.40.4 is the latest driver version that doesn't exhibit this misbehavior, but it and Linux 2.6.26 don't play well together.

Reproducible: Always




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Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-32
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:45:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 arts ati berkdb bidi bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups cvs dbus dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetype frontendonly gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal httpd iconv ipod ipv6 irda isdnlog jfs jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos kqemu libnotify live mad matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mozbranding mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pnm postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rt73usb samba scanner sdl server session shout snmp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threadsafe tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vcd vlm vorbis wifi wxwindows x264 xcomposite xfs xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="atiixp" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jeffrey Gardner (RETIRED) 2008-10-01 12:29:21 UTC]

I don't know what to tell you other than to say this is a binary driver and there's nothing we can do except whine to ATI about it.
Have you tried radeonhd? It works better than ati-drivers imo.

[Comment 2 Scott Alfter 2008-10-01 16:58:45 UTC]

Hadn't heard of the radeonhd driver, but it's unlikely to work as this notebook uses the Radeon Xpress 200M chipset.  Its graphics core is an R300 derivative; radeonhd is for the R500 and R600.