Bug 1477597

Summary: Windows blink black when switching between sessions on GM107
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Tomas Hudziec <thudziec>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.4   
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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: 1628251 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-01-15 07:40:38 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1628251, 1637584    
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video of switching between 4 sessions
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Description Tomas Hudziec 2017-08-02 12:40:11 UTC
Created attachment 1308204 [details]
video of switching between 4 sessions

Description of problem:
Windows blink black when switching between sessions on GM107

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.13-3.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.3-11.el7.x86_64
gnome-session-xsession-3.22.3-4.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
95%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open at least 2 windows
2. switch to VT with ctrl+alt+f2
3. switch back to Xorg with ctrl+alt+f1

Actual results:
areas of one or two last focused windows blink black

Expected results:
no black blinking of windows

Additional info:
video in attachment
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] [10de:1380] (rev a2)

Comment 2 Tomas Hudziec 2018-08-29 15:07:39 UTC
Still reproducible on RHEL 7.6 with packages:
kernel-3.10.0-940.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.15-1.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-1.el7.x86_64
gnome-session-xsession-3.28.1-5.el7.x86_64

Comment 3 Tomas Hudziec 2018-08-29 15:12:09 UTC
Created attachment 1479518 [details]
systemd journal

Messages printed to systemd journal when switching between virtual consoles.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2021-01-15 07:40:38 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.