Bug 1005442

Summary: corrupt login screen and gnome desktop after booting up
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: mousehippie
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 21CC: htl10, xgl-maint
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 02:57:03 UTC Type: Bug
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Result of "lspci -nn"
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Description mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:50:19 UTC
Created attachment 795016 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Description of problem:
Login screen is corrupt with many triangular artifacts. After login, GNOME desktop is also corrupt.  Once I start an application (e.g. terminal or firefox), the screen becomes normal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name        : xorg-x11-drv-ati
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 7.1.0
Release     : 5.20130408git6e74aacc5.fc19

How reproducible:
Every time I boot up the system with GUI.

Additional info:
The system is upgraded from Fedora 18 to 19 using fedup.  
Graphic hardware is onboard graphics of the AMD 690G chipset.
Monitor configuration: EIZO FlexScan S1701. VGA connection. KVM switch is being used.

Comment 1 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:52:38 UTC
Created attachment 795017 [details]
Result of "lspci -nn"

Comment 2 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:54:58 UTC
Created attachment 795018 [details]
Contents of xorg.conf

I created this as a trial workaround for the problem, but it did not work.
Reference:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems

Comment 3 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:55:56 UTC
Created attachment 795019 [details]
Output of dmesg command

Comment 4 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:56:56 UTC
Created attachment 795020 [details]
Screen shot #1

Comment 5 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:57:35 UTC
Created attachment 795021 [details]
Screen shot #2

Comment 6 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:58:05 UTC
Created attachment 795022 [details]
Screen shot #3

Comment 7 mousehippie 2013-09-07 00:59:36 UTC
Created attachment 795023 [details]
Screen shot #4

Initial screen after login

Comment 8 mousehippie 2013-09-07 06:07:35 UTC
I searched for other reports, and found that bugs 981096 and 990947 seem to be the same problem as mine.

Comment 9 mousehippie 2014-01-10 21:22:38 UTC
I clean-installed Fedora 20, but the problem persists.

Comment 10 Hin-Tak Leung 2014-09-18 09:35:58 UTC
duplicate of 'Bug 981096 - corrupted login display and first session after boot (2nd session okay)' , as you said.

Comment 11 mousehippie 2014-12-16 23:49:49 UTC
The problem persists also on Fedora 21 Workstation.

Comment 12 Hin-Tak Leung 2014-12-17 09:10:13 UTC
I no longer have that hardware (that laptop died). In any case, I seems to think that it was okay with the gnome 3.12 copr, or maybe I am wrong? My old laptop died back in mid-sept, and my memory of it is already fading.

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