Second display flickers badly on redraw using fglrx in Oneiric

[Tony Mugan]

In a recent update, my second monitor has started flickering badly when using the fglrx driver with a Radeon 5870.
I've uninstalled it and found that wirh the radeon or simple vesafb, there is no flicker.

As soon as I install fglrx and reboot, the flicker recurs.

I have a cloned (i.e. mirrored) desktop while testing this and the flicker is still there although not very distracting now.

Happens in both Unity 2D and 3D.

I will switch back to an extended desktop with Compiz effects to comfirm the issue I had earlier which was almost unusable flicker only on the second desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: fglrx 2:8.881-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 25 11:19:49 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-20 18:38:37.427184
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=459e14ec-8e51-497d-91c0-6bbf70c508b2 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-20 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1202
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: M2V-MX
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1202:bd01/13/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2V-MX:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.94+bzr20110919-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu23
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Tony Mugan (tmugan)]

I have now managed to get the Unity plugin working with fglrx using jockey and ccsm.
Ignore the report above.