GNOME Shell flickering with ATI proprietary drivers

Question

Works fine with opensource drivers, but with catalyst flickers everytime you press on activities or the lower right bar.

I have 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series

Running fresh ubuntu 11.10 and catalyst 11.10 from ati.com website.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: I want to use the proprietary drivers I know that opensource ones work fine.

Solution 1

This steps worked for me and what you probabably should do is upgrade you ATI drivers. They have solved a lot of those issues you're facing on.

http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/12/how-to-install-amd-catalyst-1112-linux.html

For smooth installation, it is recommended to uninstall currently availabe Catalyst driver. To do this, use these commands from the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove fglrx*

To install the AMD Catalyst 11.12 Linux driver now on Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit & 64-bit) or any older version, run this sequence of commands:

cd ~/;
mkdir catalyst11.12; 
cd catalyst11.12/

wget -O ati-driver-installer-11-12.run http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64.run 

If you have a 64 bit system, then install this before anything

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

After that you can start installing the new ati driver:

chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-12.run 

sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-12.run

Make now an update for the X.org file with this command:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

sudo reboot

Hope this helps.

Solution 2

Uninstall proprietary drivers.

I did it last week and latest version of open source drivers works perfectly.

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sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 xserver-xorg-core
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
sudo rm -rf /etc/ati

• http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Oneiric_Installation_Guide

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Comments

[Knowledge Cube]

Possible duplicate of askubuntu.com/questions/62808/ati-incompatible-with-gnome-sh‌​ell

[Marcus Maxwell]

Not a duplicate the person there has problem with fonts and the panel, mine is flickering ;)

[Uri Herrera]

possible duplicate of ATI graphics card, with gnome shell, screen flickers

[Danbo]

Working perfect with AMD Driver 12.1. :)

[JoZ3]

Duplicate question - [ATI graphics card, with gnome shell, screen flickers][1] (partially solved) [1]: askubuntu.com/questions/78364/…

[Marcus Maxwell]

I know that opensource one works, I need proprietary ones.

[Marcus Maxwell]

As I stated I'm using gnome-shell not Unity. Gnome-shell doesn't use compiz.

[Marcus Maxwell]

Don't have any.

[victorhqc]

oh, that's a problem, sorry I couldn't help you ;D

[Panther]

If the open source driver works, but the proprietary one does not, I highly suggest you file a bug report with ATI. Support for closed source drivers is fairly minimal and does not typically extend beyond installation and configuration.