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Rotation messes up display; bug fixed upstream

Bug #267266 reported by Tina Russell
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

I was wondering if we could bump the snapshot used for the Intrepid package up just one more revision. The revision used for this package is “a3cc...”, August 26, which was a good choice as it ends a flurry of changes and updates. There’s one more revision after it though (“38aa...”), made the same day, that fixes a large bug introduced a few revisions back.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17317

If it’s not too much trouble, could we move it up one revision? As of right now, it’s the most recent revision, and since no more changes have been made in almost two weeks there’s good reason to believe it’s fairly free of showstoppers.

Thanks!

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

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My desktop, just after rotation. You can see just a little bit of distortion in the panel

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

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With some changes, the screen becomes more of a mess.

I should note that the first screenshot I took ("Screenshot-6.png") was well after I'd done all this before, and the screen--at least, how it looks after rotation--had already been corrupted.

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

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That terminal _is_ dumping the contents of my directory tree

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

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Even after rotating back, icons and text colors are messed up.

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

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This is how it _should_ look; this is how it looked after I refreshed the theme settings.

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

One more thing! I've found this is indeed a bug with the "radeon" driver, meaning this bug is the right section. I've rolled back to and built the revision 1cf7a5494fa94e8d9f30f9b2905dfbe6d4faa445, "Fix pasto in connector table setup for vga powerbooks," and the bug went away! That means that this bug must have been introduced in the flurry of changes on Monday, August 25 (UTC).

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

Aha! I figured out which revision is the culprit. It's revision 7daba77ded1c718e93ae8c372a39a6e85228d513, "Convert randr, Xv to a common allocator." That one has the bug, while the previous revision ("Switch to using...") and all the ones I tried before it work fine. Also, all that trial and error allowed me to come up with a good "steps to reproduce" list:

1) Upon starting up the desktop environment, rotate left.

2) Rotate back to normal.

3) Start a program.

4) Rotate left again, and watch the garbled magic.

I think it's just reacting whenever there's a sudden change in how the rotated desktop looked from before... that is, it freaks out because you didn't have this huge window open last time the desktop was rotated. But, that's just a guess.

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In , agd5f (agd5f) wrote :

should be fixed in git: 38aa450fce6a91b35c191fd07112490a62cc29c6

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In , Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

Fixed! I'm running the updated driver right now, with no problems. Excellent!

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Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

I was wondering if we could bump the snapshot used for the Intrepid package up just one more revision. The revision used for this package is “a3cc...”, August 26, which was a good choice as it ends a flurry of changes and updates. There’s one more revision after it though (“38aa...”), made the same day, that fixes a large bug introduced a few revisions back.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17317

If it’s not too much trouble, could we move it up one revision? As of right now, it’s the most recent revision, and since no more changes have been made in almost two weeks there’s good reason to believe it’s fairly free of showstoppers.

Thanks!

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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Sure, sounds like a good idea.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Actually, there's only two changes, I'll just pull those as patches.

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Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote : Re: [Bug 267266] Re: Rotation messes up display; bug fixed upstream

Yay, thanks!

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Actually, there's only two changes, I'll just pull those as patches.
>
> --
> Rotation messes up display; bug fixed upstream
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267266
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi Tina,

Could I ask one small favor - would you mind validating that with this package the issue is resolved?

http://www.bryceharrington.org/ubuntu/Ati/xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a-2ubuntu4~bwh2_i386.deb

Thanks ahead of time.

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Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

Thanks!

I can tell you it probably won’t be... I really should have mentioned that I’m using the “radeon” driver, one of the three (I think) drivers built by the “xserver-xorg-video-ati” source package. So, the binary package I’d have to test would be “xserver-xorg-video-radeon.”

Sorry about that!

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

There's also a -radeon you can use at http://www.bryceharrington.org/ubuntu/Ati/

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Tina Russell (tinarussell) wrote :

Thanks! I installed that and restarted, and it works!

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Uploaded

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a-2ubuntu4

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xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a-2ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * 103_rotation_reset.patch: Fixes corruption on screen rotation
    (LP: #267266)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:55:04 -0700

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
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