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Bug 1076591

Summary: [Quadro FX380] Flickering and poor performance in gnome-shell
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Michal Domonkos <mdomonko>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: bgollahe, bskeggs, dustymabe, mdomonko, thudziec, tpelka
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Last Closed: 2016-08-04 10:45:58 UTC Type: Bug
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Xorg.0.log
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dmesg after freeze
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/var/log/messages from system freeze none

Description Michal Domonkos 2014-03-14 15:21:20 UTC
Created attachment 874493 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Description of problem:
Some g-s widgets flicker massively when just moving the mouse around, especially over the Settings window.  Also performance is poor compared to other NVIDIA cards.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.10.0-110.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.10-5.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-7.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in
2. Open Settings and move the mouse over the icons in the window
3. Go to Activities overview etc.

Actual results:
Flickering of the Settings window.  Sometimes the top and bottom panels or even the whole screen flicker.

Expected results:
No artifacts.

Comment 1 Michal Domonkos 2014-03-14 15:22:03 UTC
lspci -nn | grep VGA:
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G96GL [Quadro FX 380] [10de:0658] (rev a1)

Comment 2 Michal Domonkos 2014-03-14 15:24:10 UTC
After a while of using it the X seem to have frozen and there are some CACHE_ERROR messages in dmesg (attaching).

Comment 3 Michal Domonkos 2014-03-14 15:24:39 UTC
Created attachment 874494 [details]
dmesg after freeze

Comment 4 Ben Skeggs 2014-03-19 05:34:22 UTC
I thought I had this hardware, but it appears my G96 is a Quadro FX 580.  Will move this off to 7.1.

Comment 5 Dusty Mabe 2014-07-09 14:55:11 UTC
Created attachment 916826 [details]
/var/log/messages from system freeze

I think I am also hitting this issue. The screen flickers randomly during normal use and eventually freezes up. I am currently using Centos 7.0 that was just released but I can install RHEL to test fixes if need be. 

[dmabe@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 30 16:09:14 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[dmabe@localhost ~]$
[dmabe@localhost ~]$ rpm -q kernel xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
xorg-x11-server-Xorg
kernel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.10-5.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-7.el7.x86_64
[dmabe@localhost ~]$

I have attached /var/log/messages from the system. Take a look right around July 9 10:24:43.

Comment 6 Dusty Mabe 2014-07-11 13:35:59 UTC
I forgot to include the lspci information. It is the same as Michal but I'm including here anyway:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96GL [Quadro FX 380] (rev a1)

Comment 19 Tomas Hudziec 2016-08-04 10:45:58 UTC
On RHEL 7.2 I can not reproduce the bug.