Bug 1121588
| Summary: | mouse pointer flickering on first 2 monitors in 2 gpu and 3+ monitor setup | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Roman <roman.harmata> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 20 | CC: | bgohar |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-06-29 21:40:33 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Disconnecting or disabling 3rd monitor is kind of *weird* workaround to suppress mouse pointer flickering on monitors 1 & 2, but at least it helps to avoid eyes getting tired... Another 2 workarounds found: #1 - still flickering, but it is far better, than default settings ;-) In KDE go to System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced When using compositing type OpenGL change Tearing Prevention (VSync) to "Full scene repaints" and Apply. #2 - *recommended* as it does not flicker totally :) In KDE go to System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced Change Compositing type from to "XRender" and Apply. I still do not know consequences of these settings as I did not face any troubles since that setting. Anyway I will definitely write here when I will face any consequences. I am experiencing the exact same behavior in Gnome on Fedora 20, so this issue is not KDE specific. I am not sure what, if any, workarounds exist for Gnome, since the above are for KDE, apparently. This message is a reminder that Fedora 20 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 20. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '20'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 20 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 20 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-06-23. Fedora 20 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Description of problem: Mouse cursor flickering in 3+ multi monitor setup on various fields, buttons, tabs in various applications (dolphin, chrome). Flickering occurs: - when mouse cursor moves over various text fields, tabs, buttons - when text cursor blinks in text fields - when there are some animations going on (it flickers really ugly, often hard to say, where pointer is) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): if it helps: cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) rpm -qa|grep xorg xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-3.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.0.2-4.20140613git82c9b0c.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-13.0.0-6.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.14.4-11.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.9-1.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-18.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-6.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.14.4-11.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.2-9.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-modesetting-0.8.0-2.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.3-10.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.14.4-11.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.7-8.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.23.0-5.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.9-2.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-utils-7.5-12.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-9.fc20.noarch xorg-x11-glamor-0.5.1-3.20140115gitfb4d046c.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.6.2-8.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-9.fc20.noarch xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.15-7.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.2.0-3.20131101git3b38701.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.2-10.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.8.4-1.fc20.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.6-2.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: way 1: Open this bugzilla tracker in Google Chrome, file a new bug, move to Description field. Click there to write something, move mouse pointer anywhere on first 2 monitors, mouse pointer will flicker exactly following blinking text cursor. If you move mouse pointer on 3rd monitor, it will NOT flicker. Same thing happens if you move text cursor in that text field using arrows > mouse pointer will flicker on first 2 monitors according to frequency you move text cursor. But again it will NOT flicker on 3rd screen. way 2: Lets open Chrome window on monitor 1 or 2. Move mouse pointer over tabs, it will flicker there. Move Chrome window on monitor 3. Mouse pointer does NOT flicker when it moves over tabs. When any tabs has loading animation, mouse pointer is flickering when placed over tabs. Again it does NOT flicker on 3rd monitor. way 3: Lets open Dolphin window on monitor 1 or 2. Open some folders as tree. Move mouse pointer over shown folders and files, mouse pointer will slightly flicker there. This happens only on monitor 1 or 2. Mouse pointer flickering does NOT occur on monitor 3. Actual results: Mouse pointer flickering on monitors 1 or 2. Working fine on monitor 3. Expected results: Mouse pointer working fine on all 3 monitors as it was working OK before July 18-21. Additional info: yum update history 50 | update -y | 2014-07-21 09:22 | E, I, U | 50 EE 49 | update -y | 2014-07-18 16:09 | E, I, U | 35 EE 48 | update -y | 2014-07-14 16:37 | I, U | 22 After update 48 it still worked like charm. I did not have chance to work after 49, but after 50 I am working on this computer and it flickers really badly. GPU information (but as I have noticed, it is not vendor/model related): lspci |grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV620 PRO [Radeon HD 3470] 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV620 PRO [Radeon HD 3470] xrandr |grep DisplayPort DisplayPort-2 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm DisplayPort-3 connected 1680x1050+1680+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm DisplayPort-1-0 connected 1280x1024+3360+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm DisplayPort-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)