Bug 470206

Summary: Rendering artifacts on ATI Rdeon X800 with active option EnablePageFlip
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: fdc, mcepl, mrunge, tjb, xgl-maint
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Custom xorg.conf
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Xorg.0.log with option EnablePageFlip
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Screenshot showing desktop corruption with option EnablePageFlip
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screenshot showing corruption with evolution, not using pageflip
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Output of glxinfo for both EnablePageFlip on/off
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Screenshot with option EnablePageFlip none

Description Joachim Frieben 2008-11-06 09:25:34 UTC
Created attachment 322678 [details]
Custom xorg.conf

Description of problem:
After enabling option "EnablePageFlip" on an ATI Radeon X800 (R430), direct rendering is flaky, and artifacts corrupt the desktop.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-41.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add option "EnablePageFlip" to xorg.conf.
2. Restart X and launch GNOME session.
3. Execute glxgears.
  
Actual results:
The glxgears window is flickering and only parts of the rotating gears are visible. The GNOME panel is partly covered by rendering artifacts [see attached screenshot].

Expected results:
Direct rendering works a expected.

Additional info:
When clicking the window with the mouse, glxgears exit and the following message is returned to the shell:

  glxgears: r300_state.c:1165: r300UpdateDrawBuffer: Assertion `rrb->pitch' failed.
  Abort

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2008-11-06 09:27:23 UTC
Created attachment 322679 [details]
Xorg.0.log with option EnablePageFlip

Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2008-11-06 09:28:33 UTC
Created attachment 322680 [details]
Screenshot showing desktop corruption with option EnablePageFlip

Comment 3 Thomas J. Baker 2008-11-11 19:17:14 UTC
I don't know if it's related but I get artifacts with X1950 (R500) with no options enabled except ones for dual head. They are fairly minor but are there none the less.

Comment 4 Thomas J. Baker 2008-11-11 19:19:43 UTC
Created attachment 323218 [details]
screenshot showing corruption with evolution, not using pageflip

Comment 5 Thomas J. Baker 2008-11-11 19:20:18 UTC
Should I open a different bug?

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-12 00:30:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Should I open a different bug?

I think you've got hit by bug 466663 -- you can join a happy party over there.

Comment 7 François Cami 2008-11-16 20:52:01 UTC
Joachim,

Could you provide us with the output of "glxinfo" both with and without EnablePageFlip ?

Thank you

Comment 8 Joachim Frieben 2008-11-17 09:05:11 UTC
Created attachment 323748 [details]
Output of glxinfo for both EnablePageFlip on/off

The output of glxinfo is identical for both cases EnablePageFlip on/off.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:51:47 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 10 Joachim Frieben 2008-12-04 12:58:01 UTC
No improvement after updating to:
  xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-61.fc10.x86_64
  xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-5.fc10.x86_64
  mesa-7.2-*-0.13.fc10.x86_64

Comment 11 Joachim Frieben 2009-01-18 09:22:19 UTC
No improvement after updating to:
  kernel-2.6.28.1-9.rc2.fc10.x86_64
  xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64
  xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-8.fc10.x86_64

Comment 12 Matthias Runge 2009-02-10 08:29:43 UTC
Machine is a T43 (Radeon X300), i386. Same effects here. Disabling PageFlip 

No improvement after updating to:
kernel 2.6.27.12-170-2.5.fc10
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10

Comment 13 Joachim Frieben 2009-04-27 09:46:25 UTC
Created attachment 341413 [details]
Screenshot with option EnablePageFlip

For a fully updated F10 live USB device (i386), the corruption issue on the affected systenm has evolved (see attached screenshot): there are no artifacts outside the window of 'glxgears' anymore, and the gears are clearly visible. On the other hand, the gears are rendered incorrectly. This happens with option "nomodeset".

Comment 14 Joachim Frieben 2009-07-12 14:12:59 UTC
No improvement for current F10 w/updates including:

- kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10
- mesa-*-7.2-0.15.fc10
- xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-2.fc10

This issue is exclusively related to operation w/o KMS. When KMS is enabled, the system crashes and starts over only a few seconds after 'glxgears' has been executed. During the available period of time, no artifacts are visible.

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Comment 16 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:45:27 UTC
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