Bug 485953

Summary: Display corruption on ATI ES1000
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Evan McNabb <emcnabb>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 11CC: fdc, jfisher.bug, kari.hautio, mcepl, xgl-maint
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Screenshot of corruption
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Xorg.log from system
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dmesg from Rawhide
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dmesg from RHEL5
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Xorg.0.log from RHEL5
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dmesg for kernel-2.6.29-0.215.rc7.fc11
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Xorg.0.log from xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.11.0-5.fc11.x86_64
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Xorg.log without nomodeset (slow X)
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Xorg.log with nomodeset
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sosreport from DL360 G5 none

Description Evan McNabb 2009-02-17 17:02:25 UTC
Created attachment 332250 [details]
Screenshot of corruption

Description of problem:

This system has a built in ATI ES1000. During install, Anaconda/X work as expected. However, there is serious screen corruption once the system boots. 

I'm attaching a screen shot which shows the problem. If the mouse is moved around the random parts of the screen experience corruption and other parts refresh correctly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

This occurs on both F10 and the latest Rawhide (20090217):
kernel-2.6.29-0.124.rc5.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-3.fc11.x86_64

I installed RHEL5 which worked as expected.

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install system
2. Boot and make no changes to X configuration (no xorg.conf exists)
  
Actual results:
Scrambled display

Expected results:
Properly display screen

Comment 1 Evan McNabb 2009-02-17 17:03:32 UTC
Created attachment 332251 [details]
Xorg.log from system

Comment 2 François Cami 2009-02-20 19:28:47 UTC
Evan,

Could you add dmesg as uncompressed text/plain attachment to this bug report ?

Thank you

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Comment 3 François Cami 2009-02-22 15:15:24 UTC
dmesg and Xorg.0.log from RHEL5 may help too, if this is at all possible.

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Comment 4 Evan McNabb 2009-02-23 17:14:45 UTC
Created attachment 332948 [details]
dmesg from Rawhide

Comment 5 Evan McNabb 2009-02-23 17:15:42 UTC
Created attachment 332949 [details]
dmesg from RHEL5

Comment 6 Evan McNabb 2009-02-23 17:16:31 UTC
Created attachment 332950 [details]
Xorg.0.log from RHEL5

Comment 7 Evan McNabb 2009-02-23 17:18:32 UTC
Here is the data you requested - sorry for the delay.

Comment 8 Dave Airlie 2009-03-07 11:28:12 UTC
please retry with the latest -ati in rawhide. It contains some RN50 fixes from upstream.

Comment 9 Evan McNabb 2009-03-09 14:53:55 UTC
I tried out rawhide-20090309 (2.6.29-0.215.rc7.fc11.x86_64, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.11.0-5.fc11.x86_64) and it has the same display corruption. I'll attach updated dmesg and Xorg logs in case that helps.

Comment 10 Evan McNabb 2009-03-09 14:56:50 UTC
Created attachment 334531 [details]
dmesg for kernel-2.6.29-0.215.rc7.fc11

Comment 11 Evan McNabb 2009-03-09 14:58:02 UTC
Created attachment 334533 [details]
Xorg.0.log from xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.11.0-5.fc11.x86_64

Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 11:27:42 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 13 Kari Hautio 2009-08-07 12:21:59 UTC
I have a somewhat similar problem so decided to update this bug instead of creating a new one.

Basically I don't see screen corruption but the X is just horribly slow, ie. mouse movement will be visible only after a second or so. The slowness makes X completely unusable.

The problem goes away by disabling kernel mode setting by "nomodeset".

Attaching Xorg.log with and without nomodeset along with sosreport.

Comment 14 Kari Hautio 2009-08-07 12:25:56 UTC
Created attachment 356642 [details]
Xorg.log without nomodeset (slow X)

Comment 15 Kari Hautio 2009-08-07 12:26:45 UTC
Created attachment 356644 [details]
Xorg.log with nomodeset

Comment 16 Kari Hautio 2009-08-07 12:27:47 UTC
Created attachment 356645 [details]
sosreport from DL360 G5

Comment 17 jfisher.bug 2009-08-10 07:45:02 UTC
I have the same problem with ATI ES1000 on a HP DL380G6 with Fedora 11. I am running kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-14.fc11.i586.
Kickstart Installation does not show a screen. After Installation the system is to slow to use it.
Booting with 'nomodeset' resolves the problem.

Comment 18 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 18:22:08 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 19 Evan McNabb 2009-11-16 20:28:40 UTC
I tried the F12 live CD and still see the display corruption. Booting with nomodeset resolves the problem.

Comment 20 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:00:13 UTC
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Comment 21 Evan McNabb 2010-04-29 19:07:28 UTC
This now works correctly for me on rawhide and RHEL6 beta so I'll go ahead and close it. Feel free to re-open or created a new BZ if needed.