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Old 02-26-2012
Video Drivers Seem to Be Broken

Hey, I just installed arch linux on one of my relatives computers and the video driver seems to be wrong. I can start gnome and everything is fine until I open firefox and try visiting any page, then everything becomes pixely and ugly. Everything works except the display. Most of the available video drivers are installed, and I've edited the xorg.conf.d to load the radeon driver, but it doesn't seem to work. The card is a Radeon X1200.

Any help would be very appreciated Smilie



Update: It looks like the problem was with gnome3 (maybe?) I changed the xorg.conf.d options for my card and that seemed to help some, but it still didn't work very well. I installed e17 and everything seems to be working fine with that. Any ideas what's causing gnome to do this?

Last edited by j4c300; 02-26-2012 at 05:29 PM.. Reason: update on problem
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LINSYSFS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						       LINSYSFS(5)

NAME
linsysfs -- Linux system file system SYNOPSIS
linsys /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0 0 DESCRIPTION
The Linux system file system, or linsysfs, emulates a subset of the Linux sys file system and is required for the complete operation of some Linux binaries. The linsysfs provides a two-level view of devices. At the highest level, PCI devices themselves are named, according to their bus, slot and function in the system hierarchy. PCI storage devices are listed in the scsi_host class with a device symlink to the PCI directories of the devices. Each device node is a directory containing some files and directories: host A place holder for storage host information. pci_id A directory for the pci_id that contains either the device information or another directory structure for a PCI bridge. Each host node of scsi_host is a directory containing some files and directories: proc_name The Linux registered driver name for these devices. device A symlink to the PCI device directory. FILES
/compat/linux/sys The normal mount point for linsysfs. /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host The storage host node. /compat/linux/sys/devices/pci0000:00 The PCI device hierarchy node. EXAMPLES
The most common usage follows: mount -t linsysfs linsys /compat/linux/sys where /compat/linux/sys is a mount point. SEE ALSO
nmount(2), unmount(2), linprocfs(5), pseudofs(9) HISTORY
The linsysfs driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.2. AUTHORS
The linsysfs driver was derived from linprocfs by Doug Ambrisko. This manual page was edited by Doug Ambrisko, based on the linprocfs(5) manual page by Garrett Wollman. BSD
February 5, 2007 BSD