Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 494554
glxgears corruption on ATI Radeon X800 with kernel option "nomodeset"
Last modified: 2009-09-09 01:10:24 EDT
Created attachment 338497 [details] Screenshot of corrupted glxgears window Description of problem: When launching glxgears, the application window appears but it only shows green flashes on a black background. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-8.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start GNOME session. 2. Launch 'glxgears'. Actual results: glxgears shows green flashes on a black background. Expected results: glxgears shows turning gears. Additional info: - Gears are rendered correctly when kernel modesetting is enabled albeit only at about 1300 fps instead of about 3500 fps. - Installed packages include: * kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11.x86_64 * mesa-*-7.5-0.8.fc11.x86_64 * xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-8.fc11.x86_64 * xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.0-17.fc11.x86_64
Created attachment 338498 [details] Xorg.0.log for ATI Radeon X800 without xorg.conf
Created attachment 339621 [details] Radeon X550 Xorg.0.log my system behaves identically. glxgears works (though slowly) only if "nomodeset" is NOT specified. x86-64 system with all latest rawhide updates (15 April 2009) Radeon X550 PCI express.
To be more clear, other GL applications like screensavers are affected, too.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
For current F11 w/updates including packages - kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 - mesa-*-7.6-0.1.fc11.i586 - xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-18.fc11.i586 - xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.3-4.fc11.i586 "glxgears" works as expected.