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Eagle graphical glitch with fglrx drivers on Linux

Former Member
Former Member over 12 years ago

Hello i am having an issue with eagle on Ubuntu 12.10 using a AMD HD 7770 graphics card using the fglrx drivers, currently im using the latest drivers (13.3) from their website but i have also tried older versions which come with ubuntu no difference.

 

I have also tried multiple versions of eagle, all have the same problem.

 

anything within the work area on either schematic or boardlayout will glitch up, i found another post in german with the same problem so its not just me having the issue. http://www.element14.com/community/message/73170

 

previously i had been using a nvidia card which worked fine on this system.

 

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any help would be welcome, thank you.

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 12 years ago

    On 05/20/2013 11:09 AM, Casey O'Donnell wrote:

    Hello i am having an issue with eagle on Ubuntu 12.10 using a AMD HD

    7770 graphics card using the fglrx drivers, currently im using the

    latest drivers (13.3) from their website but i have also tried older

    versions which come with ubuntu no difference.

     

    I have also tried multiple versions of eagle, all have the same problem.

     

    Several of us have noticed similar problems, though I don't know that

    we've isolated it to the AMD/ATI vs nVidia or Intel. I have an AMD

    Radeon HD 5670 graphics card. I normally run with compositing turned

    off, but if I turn it on I see similar problems.

     

    Try turning off compositing and see if the problem goes away. You could

    also try the proprietary AMD driver. Let us know what you see!

     

    -Reece

     

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

    i did try playing with the compositing, made no difference. fglrx is the proprietary amd driver.

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Same issue here, I'm on Arch Linux 64 bit, (latest, updated yesterday),

    problem occurs only on my laptop (Radeon Mobility 5650 on proprietary fglrx driver - catalyst 13.3),

    it happened before with catalyst 13.1 and 13.2 through several Xorg versions.

    (I'm not sure if eagle worked correctly at all on this machine)

     

    Eagle works fine on desktop (Nvidia GeForce 9800, same OS, proprietary graphics driver)

     

    I have no compositing on both my computers (plain Xorg + tiling window manager - dwm)

     

    Edit:

    Just tested latest AMD driver release: 13.6 - no difference, eagle is still unusable.

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hey, will You (devs) fix this?

     

    I still cannot use Eagle on my laptop (That's unacceptable for paid software),

    All other accellerated apps (blender, games under wine, wings3D), and Qt apps (librecad, Opengl examples from Qt package)

    work fine with fglrx.

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    On 7/17/2013 9:42 AM, Daniel Kowalski wrote:

    Hey, will You (devs) fix this?

     

    I still cannot use Eagle on my laptop (That's unacceptable for paid

    software),

    All other accellerated apps (blender, games under wine, wings3D), and Qt

    apps (librecad, Opengl examples from Qt package)

    work fine with fglrx.

     

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    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    http://www.element14.com/community/message/83397#83397

     

     

    Hi Daniel,

     

    I will bring this to the attention of our developers. Stay tuned.

     

    Best Regards,

    Jorge Garcia

     

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  • CSWalt
    CSWalt over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hello,

     

    On 07/17/13 15:42, Daniel Kowalski wrote:

    Hey, will You (devs) fix this?

     

    I still cannot use Eagle on my laptop (That's unacceptable for paid

    software),

    All other accellerated apps (blender, games under wine, wings3D), and Qt

    apps (librecad, Opengl examples from Qt package)

    work fine with fglrx.

     

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    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    http://www.element14.com/community/message/83397#83397

     

    we are analyzing the problem. One question: Are you getting any output on the

    command line if you are using the "bad" fglrx driver ?

    If yes, could you tell us ?

     

    Regards,

    Walter Spermann

     

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    Walter Spermann

    Softwareentwicklung

    CadSoft Computer GmbH

    Pleidolfweg 15

    84568 Pleiskirchen

    Tel.: 08635/6989-10

    www.cadsoft.de

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    Registergericht: Amtsgericht Traunstein HRB 5573

    Geschäftsführer: Thomas Liratsch

    -


     

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to CSWalt

    Thanks for reply,

     

    I do not get any output if I run Eagle in terminal emulator,

    every fglrx version I tried (13.1-13.6) seems to cause this problem.

     

    Daniel

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hello,

     

    I happen to have the exact same problem, on the free version though. Here are some infos to help the devs :

    - Running ArchLinux as well

    - Updated yesterday/today

    - Moved from the free drivers to fglrx drivers.

    - Didn't have the problem with the free drivers, clicking "redraw" just fixed any image that could have been messed up (moved to fglrx drivers for other glitches problems in videos. Not related to Eagle)

    - Running Xorg 1.14.2

    - Running Catalyst Drivers 13.15.100.1 beta (Xorg 1.14.2 not supported with stable drivers)

    - Running Kernel 3.10.3

    - Running Eagle 6.4.0

    - Cannot disable compositing (black screen on X startup) so I couldn't test it

    - XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 has no effect

    - Anything apart from Eagle is running smoothly

     

    Please let me know if you need additional info (strace or anything).

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    CSWalt over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hi Snoop Dogg,

     

    On 07/28/13 17:48, Snoop Dogg wrote:

    Hello,

     

    I happen to have the exact same problem, on the free version though.

    Here are some infos to help the devs :

    - Running ArchLinux as well

    - Updated yesterday/today

    - Moved from the free drivers to fglrx drivers.

    - Didn't have the problem with the free drivers, clicking "redraw" just

    fixed any image that could have been messed up (moved to fglrx drivers

    for other glitches problems in videos. Not related to Eagle)

    - Running Xorg 1.14.2

    - Running Catalyst Drivers 13.15.100.1 beta (Xorg 1.14.2 not supported

    with stable drivers)

    - Running Kernel 3.10.3

    - Running Eagle 6.4.0

    - Cannot disable compositing (black screen on X startup) so I couldn't

    test it

    - XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 has no effect

    - Anything apart from Eagle is running smoothly

     

    Please let me know if you need additional info (strace or anything).

     

    --

    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    http://www.element14.com/community/message/84803#84803

    many thanks for the detailed description ! We're in contact with our

    3rd party graphic libs provider. They make us only little hope and

    think it's a driver bug. We'll update you once we know more.

     

    Regards,

    Walter Spermann

     

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    Walter Spermann

    Softwareentwicklung

    CadSoft Computer GmbH

    Pleidolfweg 15

    84568 Pleiskirchen

    Tel.: 08635/6989-10

    www.cadsoft.de

    -


    Registergericht: Amtsgericht Traunstein HRB 5573

    Geschäftsführer: Thomas Liratsch

    -


     

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    CSWalt over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hello,

     

    On 07/28/13 17:48, Snoop Dogg wrote:

    Hello,

     

    I happen to have the exact same problem, on the free version though.

    Here are some infos to help the devs :

    - Running ArchLinux as well

    - Updated yesterday/today

    - Moved from the free drivers to fglrx drivers.

    - Didn't have the problem with the free drivers, clicking "redraw" just

    fixed any image that could have been messed up (moved to fglrx drivers

    for other glitches problems in videos. Not related to Eagle)

    - Running Xorg 1.14.2

    - Running Catalyst Drivers 13.15.100.1 beta (Xorg 1.14.2 not supported

    with stable drivers)

    - Running Kernel 3.10.3

    - Running Eagle 6.4.0

    - Cannot disable compositing (black screen on X startup) so I couldn't

    test it

    - XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 has no effect

    - Anything apart from Eagle is running smoothly

     

    Please let me know if you need additional info (strace or anything).

     

    --

    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    http://www.element14.com/community/message/84803#84803

     

    Could you try with one these options:

    ./eagle -graphicssystem native

    ./eagle -graphicssystem raster

    Do you notice differences ?

     

    Regards,

    Walter Spermann

     

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    Walter Spermann

    Softwareentwicklung

    CadSoft Computer GmbH

    Pleidolfweg 15

    84568 Pleiskirchen

    Tel.: 08635/6989-10

    www.cadsoft.de

    -


    Registergericht: Amtsgericht Traunstein HRB 5573

    Geschäftsführer: Thomas Liratsch

    -


     

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