Bug 747668

Summary: [Sandybridge] Tearing on the i965 display adapter in Gnome Shell and while playing video
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: bordjukov
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intelAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 16CC: ajax, bordjukov, brianmury, inglessi, lav, mcepl, tomek, xgl-maint
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Triaged
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: [cat:rendering]
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 08:01:09 UTC Type: ---
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Xorg log file
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ROM of the adapter
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/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_opregion
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/sys/kernel/debug/dri/64/i915_opregion
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Output of the glxinfo command
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dmesg output during system usage
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/var/log/messages since the install of the system
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Screenshot of glxgears running
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Comment none

Description bordjukov 2011-10-20 17:24:25 UTC
Created attachment 915373 [details]
Comment

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Comment 1 bordjukov 2011-10-20 17:28:48 UTC
Created attachment 529347 [details]
Xorg log file

Comment 2 bordjukov 2011-10-20 17:30:29 UTC
Created attachment 529348 [details]
ROM of the adapter

su -c 'dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/rom bs=64k skip=12 count=1'

Comment 3 bordjukov 2011-10-20 17:34:17 UTC
Created attachment 529349 [details]
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_opregion

Optregion data

Comment 4 bordjukov 2011-10-20 17:37:32 UTC
Created attachment 529350 [details]
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/64/i915_opregion

Comment 5 bordjukov 2011-10-20 17:39:47 UTC
Created attachment 529351 [details]
Output of the glxinfo command

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2011-10-20 22:05:22 UTC
Could we get output of the dmesg command after the issue is reproduced, please?

Thank you

Comment 7 bordjukov 2011-10-20 22:43:34 UTC
Created attachment 529396 [details]
dmesg output during system usage

dmesg after using the system for a while

Comment 8 bordjukov 2011-10-20 22:52:53 UTC
Created attachment 529398 [details]
/var/log/messages since the install of the system

Comment 9 bordjukov 2011-10-20 23:12:07 UTC
Comment on attachment 529398 [details]
/var/log/messages since the install of the system

You may notice an issue with the i915 driver throwing the following warning:

Oct 20 20:37:17 xxx-acer kernel: [ 2041.909573] WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c:372 gen6_gt_force_wake_put+0x29/0x51 [i915]()

I made the mistake to browse for the /sys/kernel/debug/dri/64/i915_opregion file with my browser, and this was the only time this warning was thrown.

Also there seems to be an unrelated issue with the iwlagn driver for the wireless nw adapter.

Comment 10 bordjukov 2011-10-20 23:28:24 UTC
Created attachment 529403 [details]
Screenshot of glxgears running

The tearing is not visible on the screenshot, however it is visible on the screen.

Comment 11 bordjukov 2011-11-26 17:27:42 UTC
Hello,

I stumbled upon a workaround for the issue:

The tearing in gnome-shell disappeared after I added the following to my /etc/environment file:
CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling

I am not sure how much does this affect performance.

Comment 12 lav 2012-04-18 06:00:57 UTC
I also have tearing problem with i965. But it only happens on the monitor plugged to DVI connector.

I have dual-screen config, one monitor on DVI, another on VGA connector.

Comment 13 lav 2012-04-18 06:08:52 UTC
Sorry for confusion, the tearing is also visible on VGA too.

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