Bug 896515

Summary: Graphical artefacts/slowlyness of Gnome Shell 3.6 and firefox
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nicolai Stange <nicstange>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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It really uses xorg-x11-drv-ati
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my devices
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Strange memory management messages
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"ressource temporarily unavaible on X server" messages
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Xorg.0.log, nothing interesting in there none

Description Nicolai Stange 2013-01-17 13:31:09 UTC 
Created attachment 680195 [details]
It really uses xorg-x11-drv-ati

Hi everybody,

Description of problem:
having updated my Fedora 17 to 18 yesterday, I'm encountering a terrible slowlyness of my Gnome Shell desktop environment although the load is reasonably low.
This occurs especially directly after logging in and attempting to start firefox.

Some minor rendering artefacts also appear. These especially appear where some text is rendered: At least the lowercase characters 'i', 'c', 's' are missing in every text item in Gnome Shell's top status bar (my username "Nicolai Stange", current applications "Firefox", "Terminal", "Emacs", "Files")
These font artefacts look exactly the same as the ones here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692191
However, that bug report there received an EOL notification and doesn't mention any slowlyness issues.
So I decided to report a new bug and let you decide whether slowlyness and artefacts might be related or whether this bug is in part a dup.

I searched the web and it looks like several people have similar problems after upgrading to Fedora 18, so I grabbed some information together for you, see attached files.

Please note the following messages in my xsession-errors:
abrt: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0
and the
[TTM] Failed to find memory space for buffer 0xffff88010f11cc48 eviction
in my dmesg's output.
There's nothing unusual in Xorg.0.log, but for completeness, I attached it too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[lnic@nic-desktop ~]$ rpm -qli xorg-x11-drv-ati
Name        : xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version     : 7.0.0
Release     : 0.8.20121015gitbd9e2c064.fc18
Architecture: x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to Gnome Shell
2. Open Firefox

Actual results:
Desktop is terribly slow directly after login and I'm experiencing rendering artefacts.

Expected results:
Superfast desktop and correct font rendering.

Hope that helps,
let me know if you need more information!

Nicolai
Comment 1 Nicolai Stange 2013-01-17 13:32:37 UTC 
Created attachment 680196 [details]
my devices
Comment 2 Nicolai Stange 2013-01-17 13:33:20 UTC 
Created attachment 680197 [details]
Strange memory management messages
Comment 3 Nicolai Stange 2013-01-17 13:34:37 UTC 
Created attachment 680199 [details]
"ressource temporarily unavaible on X server" messages
Comment 4 Nicolai Stange 2013-01-17 13:35:45 UTC 
Created attachment 680201 [details]
Xorg.0.log, nothing interesting in there
Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-12-21 10:28:16 UTC 
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Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2014-02-05 15:02:47 UTC 
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