Bug 738790 - graphics corruption with Radeon HD6950
Summary: graphics corruption with Radeon HD6950
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jérôme Glisse
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: [cat:rendering]
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-15 19:22 UTC by Matthew Woehlke
Modified: 2013-02-01 14:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
: 749003 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:32:16 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
example corruption (63.97 KB, image/png)
2011-09-15 19:23 UTC, Matthew Woehlke
no flags Details
smolt profile (6.41 KB, text/plain)
2011-09-15 19:29 UTC, Matthew Woehlke
no flags Details
Xorg.log (47.56 KB, text/plain)
2011-09-15 20:13 UTC, Matthew Woehlke
no flags Details
dmesg output (164.75 KB, text/plain)
2011-09-15 20:14 UTC, Matthew Woehlke
no flags Details
another example corruption (3.16 KB, image/png)
2011-10-25 18:22 UTC, Matthew Woehlke
no flags Details

Description Matthew Woehlke 2011-09-15 19:22:17 UTC
Description of problem:
After using computer for some time, display becomes corrupted. Sometimes minor, often major (about 50% of screen pixels garbage).

Also happens, not nearly to the same extent, on my work machine (F14, different AMD video card, also radeon driver).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F15 latest packages as of Sept 15, 2011
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.4-1.fc15.x86_64
mesa-dri-drivers-7.11-1.fc15.x86_64
kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
kdebase-workspace-4.6.5-5.fc15.x86_64
(not sure what else to provide; please ask)

How reproducible:
So far, have not been able to use machine for more than a few hours without experiencing issue.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use computer

Sorry, don't know a specific trigger, except it is pretty well guaranteed to happen after using the machine for a while. (Running OpenGL programs and/or opening lots of graphics-intensive web pages in Konqueror seems to help. One of my KDE sessions - albeit one I am not at liberty to share - with a dozen or so Konqueror tabs remembered in the session, triggers the issue virtually on login.)
  
Additional info:
Logs/smolt/etc. will follow. Have tried XAA with no effect. X does not start with either AccelDFS=off or DRI=off. Using KDE/kwin with compositing.

(Apologies for wrong component; xorg-x11-drv-[video-]radeon doesn't exist??)

Comment 1 Matthew Woehlke 2011-09-15 19:23:57 UTC
Created attachment 523433 [details]
example corruption

Here's an example... this is from a test user login, and is VERY minor corruption compared to what I see in my main user login.

Comment 3 Matthew Woehlke 2011-09-15 20:13:15 UTC
Created attachment 523440 [details]
Xorg.log

Xorg.log from a session that started showing corruption within a few minutes; no xorg.conf

Comment 4 Matthew Woehlke 2011-09-15 20:14:31 UTC
Created attachment 523441 [details]
dmesg output

Comment 5 Matthew Woehlke 2011-09-15 20:52:07 UTC
I do seem able to reproduce this somewhat 'on demand' by, as previously mentioned, opening a bunch of image-heavy web pages in tabs in Konqueror. Perhaps creating lots of X pixmaps is related?

Logging out temporarily fixes the problem. Changing my widget style from Oxygen to Plastique and back again got rid of some of the artifacts.

Some notes from playing with xrestop...

- I started xrestop when I was having issues; pixmap memory at about 50M.
- Closed some konqueror tabs; memory down to about 40M.
- Restarted kwin, changed widget style, refreshed some web pages... managed to get rid of most artifacts.
- Fiddled around until pixmap memory rose to about 67M

...and wham, I'm starting to see non-trivial artifacts. Hopefully that's helpful!

I realize I don't know the relevant code, and so am talking out my @$$, but it looks suspiciously like any/all X pixmaps stored above the 64MiB mark are getting corrupted... especially as it seems like forcing corrupt pixmaps to be regenerated (e.g. restarting kwin, reloading web pages) seems to at least temporarily fix things.

Comment 6 Matthew Woehlke 2011-10-25 18:22:23 UTC
Created attachment 530153 [details]
another example corruption

Another example of corruption from my other system (lspci reports the card as "ATI Technologies Inc RV620 [FirePro 2260]"). This system usually does not experience the sort of "whole screen" corruption as seen on the system with the HD6950, but the glitches otherwise look the same. Just now, this little corner of my task bar was the only thing I could see on screen that was bad (and it fixed itself while writing this)...

Comment 7 Jérôme Glisse 2011-10-25 19:35:33 UTC
Matthew open a bug for your issue. Rules is one gpu one bug

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