Graphical corruption with gnome-shell (Top bar "rainbow colors")

[lkpfedora]

I have installed ATI Catalyst™Proprietary Display Driver, version 11.6 on Fedora 15 with Gnome3 shell, after restart laptop, the graphical corruption with gnome-shell (Top bar "rainbow colors"). My laptop info:

Top bar "rainbow colors"

Confirm with:

+ Gnome3 Shell
+ DELL R15 - 5010

+ r00t $ Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.10.2
Release Date: 2011-05-28
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: x86-17 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux r00t 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon
Jun 13 19:55:27 UTC 2011 i686
Kernel command line: ro root=UUID=44c48939-9cee-4784-bfe1-a43ab834d922
rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
Build Date: 30 May 2011 12:42:31AM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.10.2-1.fc15
Current version of pixman: 0.20.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.

+ r00t $ cat /etc/*release
Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)

+ Kernel: Linux r00t 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Jun 13 19:55:27 UTC
2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

+ r00t $ lspci | grep -i radeon
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility
Radeon HD 5000 Series]

+ Catalyst 11.6 (lasted version)

How to resolve this problem?

Thanks.

[The IceMan]

I had this with the 11.5 ver and hoped the 11.6 release will fix this

i think will need to wait for AMD to release the 11.7 or 11.8 to fix this

[Kano]

if they really change something more than the version string because of holidays

[Qaridarium]

if they really change something more than the version string because of holidays

new catalyst version numbering... for 2011.1 call it catalyst 2012 and the next version 2011.2 call it catalyst 2012² and the next version 2011.3 call it catalyst 2012³ and so one

[lkpfedora]

I want to downgrade version of Fedora 14, please tell Fedora 14 has support ATI Catalyst yet? I like Fedora, but when using the Radeon driver on my computer temperature increase dramatically. Can someone help me reduce the temperature when using the Radeon driver?

Thank you.

[Qaridarium]

I want to downgrade version of Fedora 14, please tell Fedora 14 has support ATI Catalyst yet? I like Fedora, but when using the Radeon driver on my computer temperature increase dramatically. Can someone help me reduce the temperature when using the Radeon driver?

Thank you.

"Change power-management method

There exist two basic power-management (short: PM) methods "dynpm" and "profile" set via sysfs:

echo "dynpm" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
or
echo "profile" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method

cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
profile

The "profile" method exposes 4 profiles that can be selected from: 1. "default" 2. "auto" 3. "low" 4. "high" In the meantime there has been a 5th "mid" profile introduced (see [2]).

How to get/select the PM profile method?

cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
default
echo "low" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

WARNING: !!! the low power management setting does not work properly with displays active on some laptops !!!

NOTE: See also http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature -> "KMS Power Management Options"

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ay/000492.html [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg01028.html"

http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo

[gururise]

Gnome Shell does not work with FGLRX 11.7 either... same graphical corruption. Lets hope 11.8 fixes it!

[adamk]

I think it's more appropriate to hope that the gnome developers fix it.

Adam