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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

OSD showing corruption on ATI graphics

Bug #429295 reported by Andy Whitcroft on 2009-09-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #426582: [RV200] (32MB) certain windows drawn garbled when XAA is used. Edit Remove

This bug affects 14 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Release Notes for Ubuntu	New	Undecided	Unassigned
xserver-xorg-driver-ati	Won't Fix	Unknown	freedesktop-bugs #22055
gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
notify-osd (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Mirco Müller
xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

Having turned off compiz to avoid major corruption I am seeing specific corruption to OSD popup messages only. Every other applicaiton I have tried appears ok. (This may be related to XRENDER?)

I have tried this with an Intel graphics system without issue.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 14 12:01:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 2366EG9
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
   no product info available
Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
   no card
Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic root=UUID=a496a7f2-ff19-4c5e-8429-539a2abe365d ro quiet
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3
libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 06/11/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1IET69WW (2.08 )
dmi.board.name: 2366EG9
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1IET69WW(2.08):bd06/11/2004:svnIBM:pn2366EG9:pvrNotAvailable:rvnIBM:rn2366EG9:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2366EG9
dmi.product.version: Not Available
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-10-generic

[lspci]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]
Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0517]

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote on 2009-09-14:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (38.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (25.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (9.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (747 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (485 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (71.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (172.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (89.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (78.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (4.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (46.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote on 2009-09-14:

p1030977-small.jpg Edit (133.6 KiB, image/jpeg)

Attaching a picture of a sample of the corruption. This appears repeatably.

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-09-14

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote on 2009-09-14:

I was requested to test the options below, each individually to see if any would fix this issue. Tried all three, no effect from any of them:

        Option "EXANoComposite"
        Option "EXANoUploadToScreen"
        Option "EXANoDownloadFromScreen"

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2009-09-14

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-09-17:

Andy, due to the lack of comparable ATI-hardware, I can't try to reproduce this rendering corruption you show in the screenshots. I've only intel and nvidia hardware here and on thoese notify-osd renders the bubbles just fine. Since you mention that you're seeing also rendering corruptions with just compiz running I'm suspecting the xorg-ati driver to be the culprit.

Can anyone with an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 run compiz, metacity and metacity+compositor in order to try to reproduce this rendering corruption?

Alberto Milone (albertomilone) on 2009-09-25

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-09-26:

This also occurs for me with an IBM x31 laptop - notify-osd and gnome-system-monitor both show the same corruption

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Florian Stoll (flostoll) wrote on 2009-09-29:

notify-osd-ati.jpg Edit (9.4 KiB, image/jpeg)

I have same bug on my ibm t42 ati mobility 7500 32MB. Therefore i opened #437117 bugreport, which is a duplicate of this bug.
It only appears with ati renderacceleration XAA not EXA. I use XAA because it has more performance with karmic koala...

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-09-30:

Schmankerl, your observation regarding the different Xorg acceleration-methods (XAA vs. EXA) clearly indicate this to be a ATI-driver bug.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)

Alberto Milone (albertomilone) on 2009-09-30

Changed in gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-10-01:

I can confirm the fact that everything is fine using EXA - but that isn't an option for me as the performance with EXA is abysmal.

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Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-10-03:

This appears to be https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22055

Setting Option "RenderAccel" "off" in xorg.conf fixes at least the osd and system monitor for me.

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-10-09

tags:

added: karmic

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-10-10

description:

updated

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-10-24

Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote on 2009-10-28:

#10

Can confirm Crispin: "RenderAccel" "off" fixed it on XAA with a Radeon Mobility 7500. Maybe this should be X's default for this generation of ATi chips, as EXA is AFAIK also off per default.

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote on 2009-10-28:

#11

Is EXA off by default? 'man radeon' (or ati) says EXA is the default.

By the way "RenderAccel" "off" fixes the problem for me on ATI Radeon 7000.

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote on 2009-10-28:

#12

This may be a dupe of bug #426582

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2009-10-29:

#13

EXA is default for radeon, but it uses XAA if VRAM <= 32 MB or if there is not enough VRAM for the virtual screen size (times 3).

See also my comments on trying out KMS in bug 426582.

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote on 2009-10-29:

#14

Release notes on the master bug.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-03-27

Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
status:	Confirmed → Won't Fix

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