Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v: flicker in 1920x1080

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Oct 31 2015 - 16:13:54 EST


Hi!

4.3-rc7 kernel, graphics works reasonably well in 1600x1200 mode. But
my monitor is native 1920x1080, so that mode looks pretty ugly on
screen. If I go to 1920x1080, I see colored horizontal lines (often
black) as soon as there's graphics activity.

pavel@half:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 478mm x 268mm
1920x1080 60.00*+
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.95
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1024x768 75.08 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
640x480 75.00 60.00
720x400 70.08
pavel@half:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200
pavel@half:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080
pavel@half:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200


This is Acer notebook,

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v]

Ouch, and power consumption seems to be 8W too high. (25W instead of
17W), I believe it started when I added radeon firmware, but will
check. It does not go lower even when I switch to text console.

Any ideas?

Pavel
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