Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

[RV250] display is corrupted

Bug #771370 reported by Glen Colquhoun on 2011-04-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-driver-ati	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu 11.04 beta classic desktop (hardware will not support Unity)
Don't notice exactly when corruption occurs, but the only programs open would have been Thunderbird and Firefox.
Applets in panel will appear once clicked on or refreshed, such as date and time.
Photo attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Tue Apr 26 12:18:09 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-04-21 18:02:33.605041
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] [1002:4c66] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc Device [14c0:0012]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c019 Logitech, Inc. Optical Tilt Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: ��
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=cbe35b5c-c60f-47cc-8dc1-d77b376e4f21 ro nomodeset quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UnitySupportTest: Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p'] failed with exit code -11:
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-22 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/16/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: COMPAL
dmi.bios.version: V2.00
dmi.board.name: CL50
dmi.board.vendor: Compal
dmi.board.version: Null
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Not Assert Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: COMPAL
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCOMPAL:bvrV2.00:bd01/16/2004:svn:pn:pvr:rvnCompal:rnCL50:rvrNull:cvnCOMPAL:ct8:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: ��
dmi.product.version: ��
dmi.sys.vendor: ��
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

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Glen Colquhoun (hgcolq) wrote on 2011-04-26:

Screenshot.png Edit (120.7 KiB, image/png)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (38.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (8.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (47.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (36.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (40.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (35.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (10.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (525 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (85.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (206.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (48.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (55.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
locale.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (243 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xinput.txt Edit (838 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (54.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-04-27:

I have (different) corruptions with the same graphics card in Maverick – see bug 766693.

Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) on 2011-04-28

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Incomplete
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-04-29:

screenshot_stefan-nagy_01.png Edit (51.3 KiB, image/png)

I can confirm this bug. I have the same graphics card, the corruptions look a bit different… I'll attach two screenshots:

01 shows a permanent symptom only affecting context menus of the Gnome panel - in my case the gnome clock applet, the indicator applet and the applet used to switch between open windows using buttons (in german called 'Fensterwähler'). I *don't* see those corruptions when I open the context menus of the menu bar and the netspeed applet.

02 shows a symptom which appears after some time (an hour or more) and tends to get worse i.e. one Gnome panel part after another is affected.

I haven't seen any of those both corruptions anywhere else than in the gnome panel - neither on the desktop itself nor in Firefox, Evolution, Banshee, Transmission, GIMP… Since I suppose (this time) only the Gnome panel is affected I'd suggest to change the title of this bug to '[RV250] Gnome panel corruptions'.

By the way: It doesn't help to chose a Gnome session without effects - so there's no way to avoid this bug.

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-04-29:

screenshot_stefan-nagy_02.png Edit (47.1 KiB, image/png)

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Glen Colquhoun (hgcolq) wrote on 2011-04-29:

Screenshot-2.png Edit (151.4 KiB, image/png)

Further update.
Exited from Thunderbird, no other application running and Desktop was completely corrupted. See attached screenshot.
Was able to restore Desktop by holding down left mouse button and 'erasing' artifact.

Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) on 2011-04-30

affects:

ubuntu → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)

Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) on 2011-04-30

summary:

- display is corrupted
+ [RV250] display is corrupted

Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) on 2011-04-30

tags:

added: maverick
removed: ubuntu

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-05-01:

screenshot_stefan-nagy_03.png Edit (1.8 MiB, image/png)

I'm noticing massive swap-usage… – maybe it has something to do with this bug. I'm working for some hours now, the corruptions took over parts of the gnome panel and 2,9GB of swap are in use. I was just working with firefox, evolution, gedit, software center, synaptic, gdebi, the terminal… I'll attach one more screenshot.

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-05-02:

There's a way to avoid the corruptions with this graphics card (at least this worked for me): Set option "RenderAccel" "off"
in section "Device" in your xorg.conf.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-05-03

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

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rajeevthegreat (rajeev-misra) wrote on 2011-05-31:

I have similar kind of bug 789962, not sure if it is duplicate of this bug.

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-05-31:

I don't think that bug 789962 is a duplicate of this bug – I think it makes sense to keep those bug reports apart since different graphics cards are affected & the corruptions look different…

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-08-15:

#10

In the meantime I found a much better way to avoid the screen corruptions: Just use…

Option "EXAPixmaps" "off"

…in the 'Device'-section of your xorg.conf. Compared to Option "RenderAccel" "off" the performance is just amazing.

@ Glen Colquhoun: Are you still affected by this bug? If so, could you test this? I'd really like to know if this works for you too, since your screen corruptions look quite differently & I'm beginning to doubt if we're really affected by the same bug.

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Glen Colquhoun (hgcolq) wrote on 2011-08-21:

#11

Solved.
I reinstalled 10.09 after filing the bug report.
Recently I installed 11.04 again and there is no evidence of video corruption.

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-08-21:

#12

Since my problem is still present, I'm going back to my original report (bug #766693) which was marked as duplicate of this one until now. So as far as I'm concerned this bug can be closed…

Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) on 2011-08-21

Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
importance:	Medium → Undecided
status:	Confirmed → New

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Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy) wrote on 2011-09-22:

#13

I'm closing this bug since the original reporter can't reproduce it anymore.

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

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