| Summary: | Test case failure: Panning with xrandr | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Tomas Hudziec <thudziec> | ||||
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-intel | Assignee: | Lyude <lyude> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 6.8 | CC: | jkoten, lyude, thudziec, tlavigne, tpelka | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-0.4.20151111.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2016-05-10 19:55:29 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Tomas Hudziec
2016-03-16 15:42:36 UTC
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b) I'm able to reproduce this on the T440s (Haswell), T450s (Broadwell), and T460s (Skylake). Characteristics are basically exactly the same on all of them, although mine seems to go up to resolutions like 7200x3200 before crashing (this is using eDP1) I take back my previous comment, kept misreading this bug as being present on RHEL7, not 6… it does seem to crash after 5200x3200, but it's still present on all of the machines I've tested So the bad news is that it looks like pannning at 5200x3200 was never actually supposed to work in uxa, a 5200x3200 buffer is too large for the amount of memory we have to work with when we're using uxa (which is significantly less then what we have to work with on sna). While it may have worked before, there's a big chance we can run into issues when doing various acceleration operations with such a large framebuffer that may not immediately be apparent. If you change your acceleration method to sna by putting something like this in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" EndSection You can switch the acceleration method to sna and have panning work at high resolutions like this. This being said, sna is definitely not as well tested as uxa on RHEL6 so this might not be a very advisable workaround unless you're willing to take a few risks. Since we can't properly support this (changing UXA to use the full memory available to SNA would be way too big of a change for RHEL6), I've written a patch that at the very least will stop the X server from crashing with panning settings like this, and instead have it gracefully fallback to the previous settings and simply return an error through xrandr. I guess this is exactly what we want and expect. Thanks Lyude! Patch looks good. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0761.html |