Bug 894158
| Summary: | The X server isn't updating text windows correctly on the screen | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Howells <dhowells> | ||||||||
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-nouveau | Assignee: | Ben Skeggs <bskeggs> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | airlied, ajax, bskeggs, dvratil, jgrulich, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, py, rdieter, rnovacek, smparrish, than, xgl-maint | ||||||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2014-02-05 14:41:48 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
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Created attachment 676550 [details]
kernel boot log
Created attachment 676551 [details]
X server log
There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. There is one fragment in xorg.conf.d/ to set up the keyboard if you want that. This is still a problem under F18: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.1-4.fc18.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.3-1.fc18.x86_64 kernel-3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 xterm-287-1.fc18.x86_64 hmmm... This appears to affect KDE but not Gnome, so I'm tentatively reassigning it to kdelibs. kdelibs-4.9.5-2.fc18.x86_64 kde-workspace-4.9.5-7.fc18.x86_64 The screenshot isn't even a kde application, but xterm. I suppose you could try disabling desktop effects, if enabled, but I think all that will do is highlight that it's still most likely a driver issue. > The screenshot isn't even a kde application, but xterm.
Indeed. But doesn't the window manager get to interfere in the redrawing events?
It's odd that I can't make this happen under Gnome, but it's trivially easy under KDE.
That said, toggling Desktop Effects off under KDE makes the problem go away (so far as I can tell). Toggling them back on makes the problem come back.
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Created attachment 676547 [details] Cut-down timed snapshot of desktop showing unfilled gaps. Description of problem: Text-displaying windows of certain programs (emacs and xterm) are not updating their contents properly. This started a couple of days ago when I updated a bunch of packages on my desktop box, including various xorg-x11 packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-2.fc17.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-37.20120306gitf5d1cd2.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 xterm-286-1.fc17.x86_64 The emacs I'm using is 24.1.50.1 that I build myself at the beginning of July 2012. The xterm package is also unchanged from when it was working. Prior to this, I was using: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.9.4-1.fc14.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-debuginfo-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.x86_64 which worked. How reproducible: Reasonably, though unpredictably reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open xterm. 2. Do ls of big directory repeatedly until gaps appear in output (see screenshot). Switching away to another program (say a desktop snapshot taker) usually causes the window to be updated, thus filling in the gaps. Actual results: Gaps where bits of text should appear in the output on xterm. With emacs, it appears that old text isn't always erased or updated to the new text. Expected results: The text should be updated correctly. Additional info: