Bug 441665 - [830M] Slight display corruption with some graphics
Summary: [830M] Slight display corruption with some graphics
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-09 12:12 UTC by Ralf Ertzinger
Modified: 2018-04-11 11:18 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-04-26 21:40:13 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Screenshot of normal icon bar (9.42 KB, image/png)
2008-04-09 12:13 UTC, Ralf Ertzinger
no flags Details
Corrupted icon bar (7.85 KB, image/png)
2008-04-09 12:13 UTC, Ralf Ertzinger
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log with -17 (21.96 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-09 12:16 UTC, Ralf Ertzinger
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log with -20 (21.15 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-09 12:16 UTC, Ralf Ertzinger
no flags Details
xorg.conf for both cases (2.14 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-09 12:17 UTC, Ralf Ertzinger
no flags Details

Description Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-09 12:12:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Versions after xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-17.fc9.i386 show slight display
corruption with some programs (not all). Please see the screenshots below.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-20.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install version later than xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-17.fc9.i386
2. Start claws-mail
3.
  
Actual results:
Corrupted icons

Expected results:
Normal icons

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-09 12:13:32 UTC
Created attachment 301787 [details]
Screenshot of normal icon bar

Comment 2 Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-09 12:13:53 UTC
Created attachment 301788 [details]
Corrupted icon bar

Comment 3 Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-09 12:16:14 UTC
Created attachment 301789 [details]
Xorg.0.log with -17

Comment 4 Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-09 12:16:34 UTC
Created attachment 301791 [details]
Xorg.0.log with -20

Comment 5 Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-09 12:17:04 UTC
Created attachment 301792 [details]
xorg.conf for both cases

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2008-04-09 20:59:10 UTC
-17 is using XAA, -20 is using EXA (from the logs)

Comment 8 Ralf Ertzinger 2008-04-10 18:36:45 UTC
Setting -20 to XAA crashes X, hard.

Disabling intel-batchbuffer, however, makes the corrupt icons disappear.

Comment 9 Callum Lerwick 2008-04-29 05:43:54 UTC
I think I'm seeing a similar/same bug. xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-22.fc9.i386, on
an Intel 830M laptop with "intel" driver. But mostly with text, rather than
icons. Screenshot here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjaseg/2447596526/

It starts out slight, but it gets worse over time. That screenshot is after
letting it get particularly bad. I wasn't able to get a good shot of non-font
corruption but you can see some in my gkrellm, in the upper left corner of the
main evolution menu, and my pidgin icon in the upper right. Definately seems
like the pixmap cache is getting stomped on somehow. Flipping to a text console
and back to X fixes it temporarily, but it just gets corrupted again after a few
minutes.

I noticed the logs said it was using EXA, but I'm not sure what it was using
before. But I switched it to XAA and it seems to work fine now, on my hardware.

Should I open my own bug or use this one?

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:11:51 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 11 Jón Fairbairn 2008-06-05 08:01:54 UTC
I'm getting the same as comment#9; I wouldn't call this slight corruption!

IBM X30 laptop,  Intel Corporation 82830 CGC, intel_drv.so from
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.i386



It looks like using 
         Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
in xorg.conf is a work around for now.

Comment 12 Callum Lerwick 2008-08-01 16:42:08 UTC
Sigh, I just tried removing the workaround. This bug still exists with
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386

Back to XAA I guess.

Comment 13 Callum Lerwick 2008-11-25 04:05:41 UTC
EXA on 830M is still broken in Fedora 10, as of xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.5.0-3.fc10.i386

In fact it got worse, the X server locks the entire system up hard as soon as any bitmaps are drawn. Reverting to XAA works. So... should 830M default to XAA perhaps? So that we can have working LiveCDs?

Comment 14 Dan Williams 2009-01-08 16:22:00 UTC
Also try:

Option "EXANoComposite" "true"

in a minimal xorg.conf.  I'm trying to track this down.  The core issue is something in the acceleration code is causing the chipset to lock up.  Need to track down what that commit was, the most likely place is i830_render.c in the driver sources.

If people could try EXANoComposite=true and report if that works or not, that would be great.

Comment 15 Callum Lerwick 2009-01-09 01:33:21 UTC
On my system, "EXANoComposite" "true" seems to work. Xorg log indicates EXA is in use:

(**) intel(0): Option "EXANoComposite" "true"
(**) intel(0): EXA: Disabling Composite operation (RENDER acceleration)
(II) EXA(0): Offscreen pixmap area of 12582912 bytes
(II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II)         Solid
(II)         Copy

Comment 16 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 00:05:47 UTC
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Comment 17 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:35:54 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 18 Callum Lerwick 2009-07-25 01:27:31 UTC
Hmmm, I tried removing xorg.conf and this appears fixed in Fedora 11 as of at least:

xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.7.0-7.fc11.i586

Leaving closed.

Comment 19 Callum Lerwick 2009-07-31 07:28:59 UTC
Spoke too soon. After running for a while I'm still seeing the same corruption, though it's much rarer now.

Re-opening.

Comment 20 Vedran Miletić 2009-09-06 08:39:16 UTC
Adjusting version per comment #18.

Comment 21 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 18:19:10 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 22 Matěj Cepl 2010-02-26 12:18:48 UTC
Could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[Note please, that this is machine generated comment for large amount of bugs; due to some technical issues, it is possible we've missed some of the responses -- it is happens, please, just a make a comment about that; that we will see. Thank you]

Comment 23 Adam Jackson 2010-04-26 21:40:13 UTC
Closing per comment #22.


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