Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 479153
Icons missing in Blender due to a bug in Intel mesa driver
Last modified: 2009-12-18 02:31:47 EST
Created attachment 328397 [details] The bad: Blender running on Intel 865 chipset with HW acceleration: no icons displayed Description of problem: When running Blender on Fedora 10 on a machine with Intel chipsets, all the icons are missing in the interface. See screenshots attached. Blender worked very well on Fedora 8 and 9 on the same hardware. If I force Blender to run without hardware acceleration using env var LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1, the interface looks fine: all the icons are displayed. This bug seems to be already fixed in mesa's git tree. I found this commit that fixes a similar issue: * sha1: bfebeffc0045266d354a36968336337e099a9f27 * Subject: "intel: Share passthrough transform setup between glBitmap and glDrawPixels." ... "The DrawPixels path was missing glViewport care, so blender's toolbar icons would go to the wrong places. Bug #19118." * Freedesktop bug: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19118 It would be cool if could repackage an updated version of Mesa to fix this very annoying bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mesa-libGLU-7.2-0.15.fc10.i386 mesa-dri-drivers-7.2-0.15.fc10.i386 mesa-libGLU-devel-7.2-0.15.fc10.i386 mesa-libGL-7.2-0.15.fc10.i386 mesa-libGL-devel-7.2-0.15.fc10.i386 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Blender on Intel gfx chipsets. 2. 3. Actual results: * No icons displayed Expected results: * Interface with lovely icons :) Additional info: * Chipset: Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller * Running in XAA mode to avoid all the nasty artifacts EXA mode generates
Created attachment 328398 [details] The good: Blender running with forced software OpenGL: icons!
I have the same issue with Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS graphic chip
There is also a Fedora Forum post regarding this issue: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206706 and also youtube video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qyWDtl672Hk
I see this bug is fixed in upstream, when and how can I enable this fix for Fedora 10?
Following a tip from Eric Anholt in comment #2 in Bug 475510, I wrote this quick'n'dirty patch on top of mesa: --- mesa-20081001.orig/src/mesa/drivers/dri/intel/intel_regions.c +++ mesa-20081001/src/mesa/drivers/dri/intel/intel_regions.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ intel_set_region_tiling_gem(struct intel } region->tiling = get_tiling.tiling_mode; - region->bit_6_swizzle = get_tiling.swizzle_mode; + region->bit_6_swizzle = I915_BIT_6_SWIZZLE_NONE; return 0; } This solves the bug for me ! No more display corruption in Blender icons.
Will intel any time soon take your patch and fix the mainstream code?
I don't know. I hope someone from Red Hat will look at this issue. BTW, my patch is not the proper one it is just a workaround to force bit_6_swizzle to NONE (I don't even know what this swizzle bit is). I modified Mesa because it was easier for me, but, IMHO, the right fix should probably be done in kernel, in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c routine i915_gem_get_tiling(). Dependending on the chipset model it should return I915_BIT_6_SWIZZLE_NONE or the correct value. If I underdstood correctly, some chipsets are broken (or their BIOS are on some system) and need the patch but others are good.
Forget my patch and the comments associated (#5 and #7). I wasn't testing the right stuff. Sorry. I still got the icons corruption in Blender. Could someone from Red Hat test Blender package from Fedora 10 on an Intel 865G chipset to see what the problem is?
Has nobody seems to be looking at this bug, I've backported the Mesa git commit which fixes a similar issue in Mesa's git tree (See bug description a the top of the page). Guess what? It does indeed fix the problem. The patch I'll attach below applies on top of mesa-7.2-0.15.fc10.src.rpm SRPM. It modifies a file shared among some of the Intel DRI drivers, so someone knowing Mesa/DRI should verify it works for all Intel chipset. Tested on Intel 865G.
Created attachment 332565 [details] Backport of Mesa's git commit that fix a similar issue Here is the patch referenced in comment #9 It fixes the icons corruption in Blender on Intel 865G chipset.
Some quick feedback for Benjamin Thery's patch, using an Intel 855GM chipset. I applied it to mesa-7.2-0.15.fc10.src.rpm, rebuilt and installed all the new RPMs. Certainly fixes the Blender problem. However, I now see random image corruption in firefox, particularly. The behaviour is a portion of the screen not being redisplayed correctly after being exposed (particularly after a desktop switch), but then subsequent redraw events will fill in the missing piece. Rolling up and unrolling the window, for example, completely redraws things. I'd never seen this behaviour prior to trying the patch. So there's some other side-effect going on there.
I take back my comment about this fixing the Blender problem. I still see it, now that I look more closely. It's just less obvious. Previously, pretty much every leading icon or letter in a label or menu was corrupted, now it's only maybe 10% or less. But, in short, at least on an 855GM chipset, this patch doesn't fix the problem.
This patch is intended to fix the icon problem, but not the leading letter corruption in labels. The letter problem is different I think, not related to drawpixels bit. Can you confirm that your icons are not corrupted anymore with the patch? But only the letters are still corrupted? Thanks. (By the way, I'm talking about the patch in comment #10)
Okay, I understand. The icons are no longer corrupted in Blender. However, since display in other portions of X (particularly in what seems to be exposed area redrawing) is definitely degraded, shall we say -- used to work, is now periodically corrupted. So it's not really a fix, due to the side-effects. It's clearly hitting the right area, though, as I do have icons back in Blender, you're right.
FYI; I'm really happy to say that this is no longer an issue under Fedora 11!
Benjamin, can you confirm this?
Sorry, I can't confirm this. I haven't upgraded my PC with Fedora 11 yet. I'll let you know when I upgrade.
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