Bug 607899

Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command,
* screenshot (or photography) of the distortion, and 
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Created attachment 427266 [details]
Screenshot of distortion.

Commencing data collection.

I've rebooted into a new kernel (newest from koji for fc13) with the drm.debug flag.

Please find attached a screenshot of Xterm corruption.
You will note that both xterms are 'missing' two horizontal lines of pixels (at about 25% and 75% of their height) and two vertical columns of pixels (at about 25% and 75% of their width).  [the missing horizontal lines are very visible when you take a look at the right window's scroll bar - the pattern skips]

The distortion of the characters is actually caused by the block cursor.  The cursor block gets drawn in a slightly different location then the location from which it is deleted - hence the left over columns of pixels (leftover rows do also show up if all you do is press enter to move the cursor down).

[The distortion only show up on the first letter if I paste in a long string of 'z's - so it is clearly caused by the cursor, but the root cause is those missing pixel rows/columns]

As I've mentioned before as soon as you start dragging the window, the window seems to get slightly bigger (ie. +2 rows, +2 columns at a visual guess) and the distortion disappears.  When you release the drag - it comes back (although now it's redrawn so the cursor caused distortion has vanished, but the rows/columns are still missing and if you type more distortion shows up during use).

[root@zeus ~]# uname -a
Linux zeus.lan 2.6.33.5-136.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 25 06:55:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@zeus ~]# cat /proc/cmdline 
ro root=LABEL=ZEUS:ROOT acpi_enforce_resources=lax SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.utf8 KEYTABLE=us drm.debug=0x04

[root@zeus ~]# find /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf-mz

[root@zeus ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf 
# This file is autogenerated by system-setup-keyboard. Any 
# modifications will be lost.

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier      "system-setup-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
#       Option          "XkbModel"      "(null)"
#       Option          "XkbLayout"     "(null)"
#       Option          "XkbVariant"    "(null)"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
EndSection

I'm guessing this means there is no xorg.conf file.

Created attachment 427269 [details]
dmesg output

Hmm, I don't see how to submit more than one attachment per message.

Created attachment 427270 [details]
/var/log/messages

I stripped out the ntp (ntpd/ntpdate) messages since they contained IPs.

Created attachment 427271 [details]
X server log

I believe this is all that was requested.

Still very much a problem with latest updates for Fedora 13, including a 2.6.34.5-44.fc13.x86_64 kernel from koji.

Please note that this is a regression compared to Fedora 12, which just worked.

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Appears to work OK in current Fedora 14.