Bug 458745 - Video tearing with X700 and LCD
Summary: Video tearing with X700 and LCD
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Airlie
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-12 02:33 UTC by Chris Adams
Modified: 2018-04-11 08:36 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:45:43 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Picture of glxgears (863.53 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-08-12 02:33 UTC, Chris Adams
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X config (814 bytes, text/plain)
2008-08-12 02:35 UTC, Chris Adams
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X log file (37.13 KB, text/plain)
2008-08-12 02:36 UTC, Chris Adams
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X log file (71.50 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-02 23:23 UTC, Chris Adams
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Description Chris Adams 2008-08-12 02:33:00 UTC
Created attachment 314034 [details]
Picture of glxgears

I have an ATI Radeon X700 XL connected via a DVI-to-HDMI cable (I also tried a DVI-to-DVI) to a Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM.  I am running at 1920x1200, the panel native resolution.  The problem is that I get video tearing, especially with high-refresh things like glxgears.  By tearing I mean horizontal lines flickering across the screen, and the whole screen flickering horizontally.

I took a picture of glxgears running.  Of course the gears are blurred (and the picture is kind of grainy), but you can see the horizontal lines along the left edge of the screen and to the right of the gears.  The whole screen is doing this (not just those spots), but that was the best picture I could come up with.

It also happens when I switch desktop workspaces sometimes (and sometimes worse than other times).

Comment 1 Chris Adams 2008-08-12 02:35:48 UTC
Created attachment 314036 [details]
X config

My config uses EXA; I also tried with the default XAA and had the same results.

Comment 2 Chris Adams 2008-08-12 02:36:38 UTC
Created attachment 314037 [details]
X log file

Comment 3 Chris Adams 2008-08-12 02:49:52 UTC
This can even happen when something is happening in another workspace (i.e. nothing is updating the actual display).  For example, I clicked on this bug and switched to another workspace to check something while this page loaded, and the screen jumped/flickered when Firefox loaded and rendered the page.

Comment 4 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 2008-12-01 11:09:31 UTC
There have been bunch of bug fixes

Could you retest with the latest kernel 
( -132 at the time of this writing )

You can get the latest kernel build here
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=72270 

And with the latest xorg-x11-drv-ati. 
( -60 at the time of this writing )

You can get the latest xorg-x11-drv-ati build here
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=95

And report back if it either improves or fixes this issue..

Thanks.

Comment 5 Chris Adams 2008-12-01 23:45:01 UTC
I tried these on an otherwise F9 system, pulling in some dependencies from rawhide (alsa-utils fedora-logos hal hal-libs initscripts libdrm libvolume_id mkinitrd nash pciutils-libs plymouth plymouth-libs plymouth-scripts udev).

Now my cursor is messed up (a garbage block) and I have no acceleration (glxgears gives me ~44 FPS).  I don't get any tearing now.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2008-12-02 20:17:00 UTC
Could we get fresh /var/log/Xorg.0.log, please?

Comment 7 Chris Adams 2008-12-02 23:23:16 UTC
Created attachment 325445 [details]
X log file

I had switched back to the F9 versions, so I pulled new packages from koji (kernel 2.6.27.7-134.fc10 and xorg-x11-drv-ati 6.9.0-61.fc10).  Also, just to make sure nothing in my xorg.conf was weird, I tried with it renamed it out of the way (it made no difference).  With today's packages, the cursor is fine again, but I still get 38-44 FPS from glxgears.

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 02:26:31 UTC
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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:45:43 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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