Bug 579321

Summary: display artefacts with ati card
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Saurabh Rawat <saurabh.rawat90>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 13CC: contribs, saurabh.rawat90, xgl-maint
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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screenshot of the shadow effect
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drm.debug=15 dmesg log
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Description Saurabh Rawat 2010-04-04 07:19:43 UTC
Description of problem:Everything on my screen seems to leave trailing shadows, and this isn't limited to fedora 13, but fedora 12, ubuntu etc, when i am not using the fglrx driver.
One time when using ubuntu 9.10 i installed backfill packages to remove the minimize, maximize lag with fglrx driver, then too these artefacts appeared.

First i thought it was my card, but i never noticed anything like this in windows 7. Also this effect starts and goes away randomly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
card : ati 3650 hd
os : fedora 13 x86_64

How reproducible:
Its a totally random behaviour.

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Comment 1 Saurabh Rawat 2010-04-04 07:22:58 UTC
Created attachment 404372 [details]
screenshot of the shadow effect

Comment 2 François Cami 2010-04-04 21:17:20 UTC
Could you please boot with the following kernel parameter:
drm.debug=15
and attach both /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/dmesg to this bug as uncompressed text/plain separate files.
Also I do not see the trailing shadows in the attached screenshot.
Could you please upload another showing the exact problem?
Could you tell us if you feel it is a refresh problem, as in when a window goes over another one and damages its content?

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Comment 3 Saurabh Rawat 2010-04-05 08:20:25 UTC
Created attachment 404461 [details]
drm.debug=15  dmesg log

Comment 4 Saurabh Rawat 2010-04-05 08:21:12 UTC
Created attachment 404462 [details]
drm.debug =15 xorg.o log

Comment 5 Saurabh Rawat 2010-04-05 08:22:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Could you please boot with the following kernel parameter:
> drm.debug=15
> and attach both /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/dmesg to this bug as
> uncompressed text/plain separate files.
> Also I do not see the trailing shadows in the attached screenshot.
> Could you please upload another showing the exact problem?
> Could you tell us if you feel it is a refresh problem, as in when a window goes
> over another one and damages its content?
> 
> -- 
> Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers    

no its not a refresh problem, and i just downloaded the screenshot it really isn't showing any shadows, i have no idea how that happened, i had checked the screenshot before uploading and it was showing the effect. maybe the screenshot program isn't catching the shadowing.
Also i want to point out sometimes even the plymouth theme shows this behaviour. I will try and provide some digicam pics for it.

Comment 6 François Cami 2010-04-05 09:11:47 UTC
Thanks for the logs.
Yes, pictures would help.
I will keep the bug in NEEDMOREINFO mode until then.

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Comment 7 Saurabh Rawat 2010-04-06 16:50:41 UTC
it seems as if the bug has evaporated. it used to show up so often,
but now its completely gone, i don't understand no updates nothing but its not showing up again. 
i am so so sorry for wasting your precious time.
i will provide more info as soon as it shows up again.

Comment 8 François Cami 2010-04-06 18:37:52 UTC
Saurabh,
Thanks for letting us know. I am closing your report as INSUFFICIENT_DATA but feel free to reopen it if you can reproduce.

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